VIPS Manual
Version 7.12
John Cupitt, Kirk Martinez

This manual formatted July 23, 2007

Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
1 VIPS from C++ and Python
 1.1 Introduction
 1.2 The VIPS file format
 1.3 The VImage class
 1.4 The VMask class
 1.5 The VDisplay class
 1.6 The VError class
2 VIPS for C programmers
 2.1 Introduction
 2.2 Core C API
 2.3 Function dispatch and plug-ins
3 Writing VIPS operations
 3.1 Introduction
 3.2 Programming WIO operations
 3.3 Programming PIO functions
 3.4 Programming in-place functions
4 VIPS reference
 4.1 Introduction
 4.2 VIPS packages