[cairo] cairocffi and GDK-PixBuf for decoding JPEG and other image formats

[Dominic Lachowicz]

Hi Simon,

FYI - GdkPixbuf has an equivalent function (set_source_pixbuf) that
can do this too.

http://www.pygtk.org/docs/pygtk/class-gdkcairocontext.html#method-gdkcairocontext--set-source-pixbuf

Cheers,
Dom

On Tue, Feb 26, 2013 at 9:30 AM, Simon Sapin <simon.sapin at exyr.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> A long-standing feature request on cairo has been the ability to decode JPEG
> and other image formats, just like cairo_image_surface_create_from_png()
> does for PNG.
>
> The response has been that this does not belong in cairo itself.
>
> GDK-PixBuf can load many image formats, but uses a different internal format
> for pixel data. I just added some integration code in cairocffi, to wrap
> GDK-PixBuf and do the pixel conversion:
>
> http://pythonhosted.org/cairocffi/pixbuf.html
>
> (cairocffi is a drop-in alternative to pycairo.)
>
>
> Happy image decoding!
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