From: Joe Cheng <code@...>
Date: 2003-09-25T22:21:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Win32 graphics library

> You can get full access to the .net framework System.Drawing namespace
(and
> thus at least part of GDI+) through one of the rubydotnet bridges.
>
> Don't know if System.Drawing.Image provides the high quality operations
> you're looking for though.

Thanks for the suggestion.  Yes, System.Drawing would be more than adequate.
GDI+'s resampling algorithms are very high-quality, as far as these eyes can
tell (I used them for my wedding photos website).  And I guess there is a
higher chance of people having the .NET framework already installed than
cygwin/*Magick.  Still, for those that don't, a 25MB download is pretty
painful...

I'm going to look into writing a simple Ruby extension in C that wraps the
GDI calls I need.  It'd be really nice to just have this tiny DLL that ships
alongside an exerb-ed Ruby program...

Thanks,

jmc