From 6676b9a24f682cd0ca84464f0f5764bed5d696f9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: John Cupitt Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2015 14:58:49 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] tiny README updates --- README.md | 19 +++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 1cb17a41..4a4e3ef3 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -2,23 +2,22 @@ [![Build Status](https://secure.travis-ci.org/jcupitt/libvips.png)](http://travis-ci.org/jcupitt/libvips) -libvips is a 2D image processing library. Compared to similar libraries, -[libvips runs quickly and uses little +libvips is a 2D image processing library. Compared to +similar libraries, [libvips runs quickly and uses little memory](http://www.vips.ecs.soton.ac.uk/index.php?title=Speed_and_Memory_Use). +livips is licensed under the LGPL 2.1+. It has around 300 operations covering arithmetic, histograms, convolutions, morphological operations, frequency filtering, colour, resampling, statistics and others. It supports a large range of numeric formats, from 8-bit int to 128-bit complex. It supports a good range of image formats, including -JPEG, TIFF, PNG, FITS, Matlab, OpenEXR, and OpenSlide. It can also load -images via ImageMagick or GraphicsMagick. +JPEG, TIFF, PNG, WebP, FITS, Matlab, OpenEXR, DeepZoom, and OpenSlide. +It can also load images via ImageMagick or GraphicsMagick. It has APIs for C and C++ and comes with a Python binding and a command-line interface. Bindings are -available for Ruby, JavaScript and others. There is [API -documentation](http://www.vips.ecs.soton.ac.uk/supported/current/doc/html/libvips/index.html), -plus a [tutorial-style -manual](http://www.vips.ecs.soton.ac.uk/supported/current/doc/html/vipsmanual/vipsmanual.html). +available for Ruby, JavaScript and others. There is full +[documentation](http://www.vips.ecs.soton.ac.uk/supported/current/doc/html/libvips/index.html). There's a GUI as well, see the [VIPS website](http://www.vips.ecs.soton.ac.uk). @@ -209,6 +208,10 @@ If available, vips can load images from Matlab save files. If available, vips can load FITS images. +## libwebp + +If available, vips can load and save WebP images. + ## OpenEXR If available, libvips will directly read (but not write, sadly)