API References

GIMP comes with libraries which can be used by plug-in developers to enhance their usage of the software. This page lists documentations for the Application Programming Interfaces (API) of these libraries:

• GIMP 3.0 API: for 3.* series.

Additionnally you may want to use some of the following interfaces:

• Babl API: GIMP’s pixel encoding and color space conversion engine.
• GEGL API: GIMP’s image processing engine.
• GTK, Pango, GdkPixbuf and more…: more dependencies used by GIMP and libgimp.

Offline API references

Download

If you don’t want to read the API documentation online, you may also download the source tarballs from our download server. They contains pre-generated API documentation in HTML format in reference/libgimp*/ folders.

On distribution, the API reference HTML may also be provided with the development package or as separate packages. For instance, on Debian, the package libgimp3.0-doc would usually be the one containing these files.

Generate

Finally, by simply following our build instructions, you will find locally built API docs at $GIMP_PREFIX/share/doc/gimp*/libgimp*/.