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  38     <h2>GFXprim</h2>
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  40       <i>GFXprim</i> is Open-source modular 2D bitmap graphics library
  41       with emphasis on speed and correctness.
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  43      <h3>License</h3>
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  45       The code is licenced under LGPL 2.1 or (at your opinion) any later.
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  47      <h3>About</h3>
  48      <p>
  49       Once upon the time <i>GFXprim</i> had started as an simple attempt to
  50       replace SDL_gfx which was unusable at the time we started. Soon it outgrew
  51       the initial purpose and yielded into library that could be used as
  52       replacement for SDL library. In constrast with SDL <i>GFXprim</i> is
  53       not aiming for abstracting the operating system interface. Instead of
  54       that <i>GFXprim</i> provides means for keeping the system dependend
  55       parts in well defined and isolated parts.
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  58       One of the key points of the library is code generation. Most of the
  59       graphics operations are written using <a href="http://jinja.pocoo.org/">jinja</a>
  60       templating engine which is used to generate specialized C code. So,
  61       for an example, once you add pixel definition into configuration file,
  62       creating specialized filters, loaders and conversions to other pixel
  63       formats is just a matter of typing "make && make clean".
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  66       The code is stored in <a href="http://repo.or.cz/w/gfxprim.git">git</a>
  67       and although we haven't done release yet; first alpha release may be done
  68       later this year once rest of the API stabilizes (the core code has been
  69       stable for quite some time).
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  71      <h3>Contact</h3>
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  73       We do have a <a href="http://www.ucw.cz/mailman/listinfo/gfxprim">mailing list</a>
  74       and although there not much of discussion there now, we are there and listeing.
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