Re: JPEG Support For Libcairo

On Tuesday 29 December 2015 22:46:19 Adrian Johnson wrote:
> On 29/12/15 12:35, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote:
> > On 28.12.2015 15:12, Bernhard Fischer wrote:
> >> I implemented two small functions which read/write JPEG into/from a Cairo
> >> image surface.
> > 
> > Added it to cairo tree - see patches.
> 
> The API is missing the stream functions. JPEG API has previously been
> proposed [1]. Behdad's reply [2] summarizes the reason the patches were
> declined:
> 
>   "PNG support is cairo's way to import and export images, and it
>   does the job just like that, losslessly and in a rather efficient
>   format. Anything else should be implemented on top of other cairo
>   API.  It's like the toy text api."
> 
> [1] http://lists.cairographics.org/archives/cairo/2007-January/009194.html
> [2] http://lists.cairographics.org/archives/cairo/2007-January/009200.html


This implementation like I've done is actually done on top of cairo. It does 
not access internal functions or structures in any way.

Bernhard

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