On Sat, 2006-07-01 at 10:53 +0100, Andrew John Hughes wrote: > Wasn't there talk a while back about having an ImageMagick ImageIO > plugin? I don't know what happened to it, but this would handle a lot > of these obscure formats. Yup. Still, pure-java plugins are still desirable though, I'm not really sure the need for an ImageMagick plugin is as great now that most of the usual suspects (GIF/PNG/JPEG) are coming along in pure java. > Is there also no way that Gtk+ or Qt image support could be leveraged > for our purposes? Yes, we currently do use this, there's a IIO plugin based on Gdk-pixbuf (which sucks, however.. something's wrong with it.) and both the Toolkits use the native libraries for createImage(). However, neither lib is really that great; Qt supports PNG/JPEG/GIF and Gdk has additional support for pcx, ras, ico, wmf and xpm/xbm.* None of which is really a hard format to support. (Actually I might have a PCX decoder lying around somewhere that I wrote 10 years ago (when that was still a popular format)) /Sven
