[cairo] How to load a BMP/JPG/TGA to a Surface?

[Jonathan Morton]

> FreeBASIC already have 'standalone' reusable functions that loads JPG/TGA
> (BMP is internally supported via BLoad). However, when I pass the loaded
> image to cairo, it has an offset of 8-pixels. See this image to see what I
> mean.
> http://konsolscript.org/~mjmendoza/freebasic/cairo/bmp-problem.png

It looks to me as though BLoad has included the BMP header in the
block of data it loaded.  I would talk to FreeBASIC people about that.

 - Jonathan Morton