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