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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Image Libs (Was: Re: devel-announce: ImageMagick and KDE to join forces)
From:       Uwe Thiem <uwe () uwix ! alt ! na>
Date:       1999-05-31 17:38:15
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On Mon, 31 May 1999, Michael Reiher wrote:

> Mosfet wrote:
> > 
> > After some correspondence with the ImageMagick team I have gotten the go-ahead
> > to port the ImageMagick graphic manipulation library to KDE classes and
> > announce a collaboration between KDE and ImageMagick. This brings a large code
> > base of advanced graphical effects and conversions to the KDE project that can
> > be used in order to design image manipulation applications.
> > 
> This sounds good.
> 
> I have a question about those graphics libs, which I always wondered
> about. Maybe you can tell me. There is also imlib, IIRC Gimp uses it for
> it's effects. And further IIRC it's used for that KDE style stuff. So
> why not use imlib for other things as well? 
> I mean, what are the differences, advantages, disadvantages between
> both? 
> 
> Note: I don't say we should use one or the other lib. I'm just curious
> what's the difference between them, which one is better.

Two good reasons:

- imlib doesn't do picture manipulation at all

- imlib doesn't run too well on 64bit systems

Uwe

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