The gdk-pixbuf Library

Federico Mena Quintero

<federico@gimp.org>

Version 2.6.8

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Table of Contents

I. API Reference

Initialization and Versions - Library version numbers.
The GdkPixbuf Structure - Information that describes an image.
Reference Counting and Memory Mangement - Functions for reference counting and memory management on pixbufs.
File Loading - Loading a pixbuf from a file.
File saving - Saving a pixbuf to a file.
Image Data in Memory - Creating a pixbuf from image data that is already in memory.
Inline data - Functions for inlined pixbuf handling.
Scaling - Scaling pixbufs and scaling and compositing pixbufs
Rendering - Rendering a pixbuf to a GDK drawable.
Drawables to Pixbufs - Getting parts of a GDK drawable's image data into a pixbuf.
Utilities - Utility and miscellaneous convenience functions.
Animations - Animated images.
GdkPixbufLoader - Application-driven progressive image loading.
Module Interface - Extending gdk-pixbuf
gdk-pixbuf Xlib initialization - Initializing the gdk-pixbuf Xlib library.
Xlib Rendering - Rendering a pixbuf to an X drawable.
X Drawables to Pixbufs - Getting parts of an X drawable's image data into a pixbuf.
XlibRGB - Rendering RGB buffers to X drawables.

II. Tools Reference

gdk-pixbuf-csource - C code generation utility for GdkPixbuf images
gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders - GdkPixbuf loader registration utility

Index

Index of deprecated symbols

Index of new symbols in 2.2

Index of new symbols in 2.4

Index of new symbols in 2.6

A. Porting applications from Imlib to gdk-pixbuf

Introduction

Differences between Imlib and gdk-pixbuf

Initialization
Memory management
The Rendering Process

Converting Applications to gdk-pixbuf

Image loading and creation
Rendering Images
Scaling Images
Getting Image Data from a Drawable

B. License