The gdk-pixbuf library provides a number of features: - GdkPixbuf structure for representing images. - Image loading facilities, both synchronous and progressive. - Rendering of a GdkPixbuf into various formats: drawables (windows, pixmaps), GdkRGB buffers. - Fast scaling and compositing of pixbufs. - Simple animation loading (ie. animated gifs). In addition, this module also provides a little libgnomecanvaspixbuf library, which contains a GNOME Canvas item to display pixbufs with full affine transformations. Also, John Harper maintains the Xlib port of gdk-pixbuf. This included library lets you use the gdk-pixbuf rendering functions on plain Xlib programs that do not use Gdk. To install the gdk-pixbuf library, you will want to have the following libraries installed: libpng 1.0.3 ; ls -l /usr/lib/libpng.so.2.* http://www.cdrom.com/pub/png ftp://swrinde.nde.swri.edu/pub/png/src zlib 1.1.3 ; ls -l /usr/lib/libz.so.* http://www.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/zlib ftp://swrinde.nde.swri.edu/pub/png/src libjpeg v6b ; ls -l /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.6* http://www.ijg.org/ ftp://ftp.uu.net/graphics/jpeg/ libtiff v3.4 ; ls -l /usr/lib/libtiff.so.* http://www.sgi.com/fun/freeware/graphics.html ftp://ftp.sgi.com/graphics/tiff/