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# API Reference

This part presents the class and function reference for the gdk-pixbuf library. Classes are described together with their methods; individual functions are grouped by functional group.

Table of Contents

Initialization and Versions — Library version numbers.
The GdkPixbuf Structure — Information that describes an image.
Reference Counting and Memory Mangement — Functions for reference counting and memory management on pixbufs.
File Loading — Loading a pixbuf from a file.
File saving — Saving a pixbuf to a file.
Image Data in Memory — Creating a pixbuf from image data that is already in memory.
Inline data — Functions for inlined pixbuf handling.
Scaling — Scaling pixbufs and scaling and compositing pixbufs
Rendering — Rendering a pixbuf to a GDK drawable.
Drawables to Pixbufs — Getting parts of a GDK drawable's image data into a pixbuf.
Utilities — Utility and miscellaneous convenience functions.
Animations — Animated images.
GdkPixbufLoader — Application-driven progressive image loading.
Module Interface — Extending GdkPixBuf
gdk-pixbuf Xlib initialization — Initializing the gdk-pixbuf Xlib library.
Xlib Rendering — Rendering a pixbuf to an X drawable.
X Drawables to Pixbufs — Getting parts of an X drawable's image data into a pixbuf.
XlibRGB — Rendering RGB buffers to X drawables.

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