Chapter 5. GPC concepts

Please don't forget that GPC was primarily designed for my needs : classify images produced with a camera, stored on negative films and scanned in a rather low resolution. This explains a few choices I made and the list of informations that can be stored for each film and photo.

In this organisation, a directory is supposed to store a complete film. Each image file stored in this directory is then supposed to be a part of this film.

In fact, I realized while using GPC that it could be used to classify any kind of image : scanned photos as well as little GIF images. The only constraint is that GPC uses GDK-Pixbuf, and so only images formats recognized by GDK-Pixbuf can be used and seen in GPC.

At the time of writing this program and this documentation, GDK-Pixbuf (version 0.8.0) was able to load images in BMP, GIF, ICO, JPEG, PNG, PNM, RAS, TIFF and XPM formats. Other formats may be recognized with future versions of GDK-Pixbuf.