The TImage class (abstract) interfaces to libAfterImage via TASImage. I am working with the author of the libAfterImage (http://afterstep.sourceforge.net/afterimage/) to make the library more portable (works now on Linux, IA-64, HP-UX, True64, to be tested on SGI, Sun). Before settling on libAfterImage I compared it with imlib and xv. libAfterImage was much better in scaling images than the others and faster too (on MXX capable pentiums it uses MXX instructions). It needs the standard image access libs like libpng, libtiff, etc to be able to read other formats. Interfacing to different input/output formats should not be too difficult. Via the abstract TImage interface we can later interface to the next best image lib. I expect to release in CVS sometime next week. Cheers, Fons. Christian Holm Christensen wrote: > > Hi Fons, et al, > > On Wed, 07 Nov 2001 18:34:32 +0100 > Fons Rademakers <Fons.Rademakers@cern.ch> wrote > concerning "Re: [ROOT] Picture/Pixmap/Bitmap from data": > > We are working on an interface to an image processing library. > > Sounds like a brilliant idea. Are you rellying on third-party > software like ImageMagick or similar? (with obvious references to the > not-so-old GUI discussion on this list.) > > > ... to print the images in the pads in PS or to save them to png, > > tiff, xpm, gif, etc. > > What about saving in Metapost, LaTeX, Fig, ladida formats? I think > the Fig thing would be very intresting, since you'll be able to open > the file in XFig (my drawing tool of choice) and do various fun > stuff. Metapost is intresting since it produces high-quality output - > much more so then most other programs can do, and then it integrates > well with TeX. (How many articles are written in Word these days - I > think LaTeX is still the typesetting system of choice for most > people - no wonder). > > Ok, so it may be a bit more tricky, and probably not something you can > get 3rd-party libraries for easily, but I thought it worth a mention. > > Yours, > > Christian Holm Christensen ------------------------------------------- > Address: Sankt Hansgade 23, 1. th. Phone: (+45) 35 35 96 91 > DK-2200 Copenhagen N Cell: (+45) 28 82 16 23 > Denmark Office: (+45) 353 25 305 > Email: cholm@nbi.dk Web: www.nbi.dk/~cholm -- Org: CERN, European Laboratory for Particle Physics. Mail: 1211 Geneve 23, Switzerland E-Mail: Fons.Rademakers@cern.ch Phone: +41 22 7679248 WWW: http://root.cern.ch/~rdm/ Fax: +41 22 7679480
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