From: Ned Konz <ned@...>
Date: 2001-09-06T08:03:58+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:20946] Re: GUI suggestions to display FAXes please

On Wednesday 05 September 2001 03:41 pm, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
> Hi, Ruby Folk,
>
>   I have a project in hand which involves the display of FAX images.
>
>   I have seen looking around for a GUI Tool Kit which will display the fax
> images natively, i.e. without convertion to a different image file format.

What's wrong with converting them to temp files and then deleting them? I'd 
use ImageMagick's (http://www.imagemagick.org/) convert program and then 
display the .PNG or whatever your GUI can handle. There isn't a Ruby 
ImageMagick port that I know of yet, though.

There is the ImageMagick Integration Project which aims to add native IM 
conversion and manipulation to specific GUI toolkits, including Qt, Tk, GTK+, 
and MSWin, all of which (I think) have Ruby ports:
http://www.simplesystems.org/ImageMagick/Integration/

They seem to have actually done ports for

GTK+ http://home.earthlink.net/~lightmanaj/GdkMagick/ and

MSWin 
http://www.simplesystems.org/ImageMagick/Integration/Win32/WinExt/WinExt.zip 
and http://members.xoom.com/awitteveen/ .

There is also the Imlib and GdkPixbuf projects, which add file reading to 
GTK+.

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Ned Konz
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