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/