something else instead of PIL?

Reimar Bauer

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Dec 17, 2008, 3:48:36 PM12/17/08

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Hi

what has happened to PIL? No updates since two years.

Or does one know an alternative lib for resizing images?

cheers
Reimar

sk...@pobox.com

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Dec 17, 2008, 4:01:39 PM12/17/08

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Reimar> Hi what has happened to PIL? No updates since two years.

It's well-written, stable code. As far as I know it does what people want
(at least it's done everything I've needed when I've used it). Why should
it matter that there hasn't been an official release in two years?

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Chris Rebert

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Dec 17, 2008, 4:04:34 PM12/17/08

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On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Reimar Bauer <R.B...@fz-juelich.de> wrote:
> Hi
>
> what has happened to PIL? No updates since two years.

The Python Imaging Library is still current; I guess they just haven't
found any new bugs or seen fit to add new functionality in a while,
though I presume they'll start working on a Python 3.0 port
eventually.

If you don't like PIL, there's always the (much less popular) Python
bindings to ImageMagick:
http://www.imagemagick.org/script/api.php#python

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Daniel Fetchinson

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Dec 17, 2008, 4:09:04 PM12/17/08

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>> what has happened to PIL? No updates since two years.
>

> The Python Imaging Library is still current; I guess they just haven't
> found any new bugs or seen fit to add new functionality in a while,
> though I presume they'll start working on a Python 3.0 port
> eventually.

That's actually an interesting question. Does anybody know if PIL is
being ported to 3.0? Are there such plans? Maybe even code?

Cheers,
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imageguy

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Dec 18, 2008, 8:56:34 AM12/18/08

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I have found the FreeImage library with the Python bindings quite
workable. I work with multi-page TIF images and this seemed to be the
best option.

The FreeImage library seems to be actively maintained too (Last
release in July 08 with updates to many of the image processing plug-
ins). The python bindings took me a bit to understand as they try to
emulate PIL, however they are implemented using ctypes, so you can
change/manage yourself if needed. I found working directly with the
functions exported from the .dll the best option and gave the best
performance.

Freeimage site: http://freeimage.sourceforge.net/
Python bindings: http://freeimagepy.sourceforge.net/

Hope that helps. Good luck. Working with images/graphics can make my
brain hurt sometimes.

g.

Reimar Bauer

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Dec 18, 2008, 9:04:49 AM12/18/08

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imageguy schrieb:

thanks!

Reimar

Reimar Bauer

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Dec 18, 2008, 8:56:44 AM12/18/08

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sk...@pobox.com schrieb:

> Reimar> Hi what has happened to PIL? No updates since two years.
>
> It's well-written, stable code. As far as I know it does what people want
> (at least it's done everything I've needed when I've used it). Why should
> it matter that there hasn't been an official release in two years?
>

I am interested to get some new features added e.g. some special
conversion routines for colorblind people.
http://scien.stanford.edu/class/psych221/projects/05/ofidaner/colorblindness_project.htm

How can that be archieved?

cheers
Reimar

sk...@pobox.com

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Dec 18, 2008, 9:53:35 AM12/18/08

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Reimar> I am interested to get some new features added e.g. some special
Reimar> conversion routines for colorblind people.
Reimar> http://scien.stanford.edu/class/psych221/projects/05/ofidaner/colorblindness_project.htm

Reimar> How can that be archieved?

Contact Fredrik Lundh? http://effbot.org/

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