libvips Reference Manual

For libvips 8.16.1. The latest version of this documentation can be found on the libvips website.

libvips Overview
  VIPS from the command-line — How to use the VIPS library from the command-line
  VIPS from C — How to use the VIPS library from C
  libvips from C++
  Developer checklist
  How to write bindings
  Extending VIPS — How to add operations to VIPS
  VIPS function list — List of VIPS functions and operators
  The VIPS file format — The VIPS file format
  VIPS and threads — VIPS and threading
  How libvips works
  Opening files
  Image pyramids
  Using `vipsthumbnail`
  Examples
  Cite
Core libvips API
  vips — startup, shutdown, version
  VipsImage — the VIPS image class
  header — get, set and walk image headers
  generate — calculate pixels and pixel buffers
  VipsOperation — the VIPS operation base object class
  error
  memory — memory utilities
  VipsRegion — small, rectangular parts of images
  type — basic types
  rect
  VipsObject — the VIPS base object class
  VipsThreadpool — pools of worker threads
  buf — a string you can append to
  VipsConnection — a source/sink of bytes, perhaps a network socket
  VipsSbuf — buffered read from a source
  basic — a few typedefs used everywhere
libvips operation API by section
  arithmetic — pixel arithmetic, trig, log, statistics
  colour — colour operators
  conversion — convert images in some way: change band format, change header, insert, extract, join
  convolution — convolve and correlate images
  VipsForeign — load and save images in a variety of formats
  freqfilt — fourier transforms and frequency-domin filters
  histogram — find, manipulate and apply histograms and lookup tables
  draw — drawing operations: flood, paste, line, circle
  VipsInterpolate
  morphology — morphological operators, rank filters and related image analysis
  mosaicing — build image mosaics
  create — create images in various ways
  resample — resample images in various ways
Other API (no gtkdoc comments yet)
  transform
  util
  version
  semaphore
Object Hierarchy
API Index
Annotation Glossary

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