What image formats are supported by Gdk-Pixbuf (Gtk-Image?) by Default?

Question

I know that Gdk-Pixbuf supports png and jpg, but I cannot find an exact list of all the completely (or partially) supported image formats anywhere on the internet. It is necessary for my current project, since I need to check the extension of every file in a directory and determine whether it is supported or not by gdk-pixbuf. Any help?

Answer 1

Calling gdk_pixbuf_get_formats() in your application will tell you which formats your copy of GDKPixbuf can load.

Answer 2

I know this is 5+ years old but I had trouble finding this for PyGI / PyGObject (3.22.0).

import gi.repository.GdkPixbuf as pixbuf

Then we can get all the formats using:

for f in pixbuf.Pixbuf.get_formats():
print f.get_name()

and we get:

• ani
• bmp
• GdkPixdata
• gif
• icns
• ico
• jpeg
• png
• pnm
• qtif
• svg
• tga
• tiff
• wmf
• xbm
• xpm

Answer 3

This should be available by querying gdk-pixbuf-loaders. Here is more information on pixbuf modules and supported formats.