4 'GFXprim' is Open-source modular 2D bitmap graphics library with emphasis on
7 The goal of the library is to provide simple but powerful API for applications
8 that needs to work with bitmap graphics. The library itself started as a
9 simple replacement for 'SDL_gfx' which was unusable at the time and soon it
10 outgrew the initial purpose and became main topic of the development.
12 GFXprim is not tied to a specific graphic system (such as X11) but on the
13 other hand provides means to interact with them.
15 GFXprim can load and save images in variety of formats, operate on the data on
16 a pixel level, run image filters, render basic shapes or text, open and manage
17 X11 windows, draw on Linux framebuffer and more.
19 GFXprim also comes with link:core_python.html[Python bindings].
21 There are a few example applications included, the most advanced is a
22 link:spiv.html[spiv] image viewer which is already a full featured
25 See the link:about.html[about page] for more detailed information.
30 The code is licensed under LGPL 2.1 or (at your opinion) any later.
35 Report bugs on the GFXprim
36 http://www.ucw.cz/mailman/listinfo/gfxprim[mailing list].
37 Eventually you can use GitHub
38 https://github.com/gfxprim/gfxprim/issues[issue tracker].
43 The GFXprim version 1.0.0-rc0 has been released!
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47 http://gfxprim.ucw.cz/releases/gfxprim_1.0.0-rc0.tar.bz2[1.0.0-rc0] tarball (without docs).
49 Or get the code from directly from http://github.com/gfxprim/gfxprim/[github].
54 We do have a http://www.ucw.cz/mailman/listinfo/gfxprim[mailing list] and
55 although there is not much of discussion now, we are there and listening.