Robert Schuster wrote: > Hi, > here is the corresponding PR: > > http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23786 > > Follow the link to the ML to get my preliminary image loading code. It may be > useful to write the start of a full ImageMagick based plugin. However fitzsim > said that ImageMagick provide to few features for a real ImageIO plugin. I think > this means that access to meta-information is impossible. Still simple image > loading should be doable ... Yes, I'd still like to have an ImageMagick back-end as a catch-all for formats not supported by the built-in plugins. Tom > > cya > Robert > > > Juerg Lehni wrote: >> Hi Sven, >> >> Thank you for the update on the status quo of both Java2D and ImageIO. >> And great to hear that work is currently done for this. >> >> I wonder about ImageIO through ImageMagick though. Are you sure that >> there is no code for this so far? I saw it mentioned here, and from >> what I read it sounds like it's already working: >> >> http://developer.classpath.org/doc/javax/imageio/package-summary.html >> >> And how much more time do you think will be needed for the Java2D stuff >> to work completely headless? >> >> Is there anything I could help with? >> >> J?rg >> >> Am 07.06.2006 um 14:20 schrieb Sven de Marothy: >> >>> Hello Juerg, >>> >>>> I wonder: Does Java2D and ImageIO work on Unix without an X Server >>>> installed, e.g. in a server environment or on OS X? If so: How do I >>>> need to compile? >>> >>> Roman has been doing some work on this, however it's not ready for >>> production use yet, AFAIK. The existing Java2D on Cairo peers will >>> probably be able to work headless. They don't at this very moment >>> though. The main remaining dependency on GTK for headless is for fonts, >>> but I'm actually working on removing that right now. >>> >>>> And what is the situation on Windows? >>> >>> Same as above. (The Cairo libs used for offscreen drawing are portable >>> and shouldn't have any problems under Windows.) >>> >>>> I read somewhere that ImageIO by default is based on ImageMagick. Is >>>> this mature, does it work well? >>> >>> This is planned, but hasn't been implmented yet. At the moment there's >>> an ImageIO plugin based on GdkPixbuf and a pure-java BMP plugin, and a >>> JPEG one in the works. >>> >>> So, we're not quite there yet. But since you've shown interest, I'll >>> keep it in mind and see what I can do once we're finished with this >>> overhaul. Most of the code is there, it's mostly just the font stuff >>> and then cleaning up the dependencies to allow for headless. >>> >>> /Sven >>> >> >> >
