Brendan Duncan

Yeah, you're right, it should do a gather and interpolate over all of the pixels converging in the down sampling. I would like to go in and rewrite that function...

The usual trick for cubic down sampling is to use a guassian blur on the image and then downsample. Which, as you said, is more costly. An average would be...

Perhaps the masking logic needs to be reworked to be able to do channel based masking without a mask image. Currently you have to provide a mask image, and maskChannel...

Font support is very limited, just fixed size bitmap fonts (as you've discovered). You can create your own fonts to use with drawString, I made a brief doc on it...

Yes, there is no variable sized font rendering.

I can't add the Flutter dependencies to the image package. That could be done in a separate package, and it would be awesome if it were. I won't able to...

Can you give me a specific repo example?

You're correct that the tests aren't testing all that much. They're more of a "spit out a bunch of images and I visually look at the results to see if...

Does it happen without the copyCrop? GIF is a horrible format, I wish it had died in the 90s like it was supposed to. Likely it's a per-frame palette issue....

It's true, I never got to implementing EXIF decoding for WebP. It's still a TODO in the code. Guess I should TODO it soon.