<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Be sure to see PIL 1.1.7: <a href="http://hg.effbot.org/pil-117/">http://hg.effbot.org/pil-117/</a><div><br></div><div>I'm using PIL 1.1.7 as part of a caching image proxy that needs to perform a variety of transformations of remote images. With 1.1.7 and some additions, I can now handle all image formats that matter to me. It handles interlaced PNGs, as well as a large variety of favicons (using this code: <a href="http://code.google.com/p/casadebender/wiki/Win32IconImagePlugin">http://code.google.com/p/casadebender/wiki/Win32IconImagePlugin</a>). The only image format not easily handled that I needed was SVG. For that, I use librsvg2 to render SVG to PNG. I originally built my project on ImageMagick / MagickWand, but eventually switched to PIL 1.1.7 due to it's cleaner interface, better docs, and more flexibility. </div><div><br></div><div>-- David</div><div><br><div><div>On Feb 16, 2010, at 8:19 PM, Alec Flett wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">My personal experience is that PIL has a very easy to use interface but falls over on a number of image formats like interlaced PNG (which are all over the web!), while GraphicsMagick (the stable fork of ImageMagick) can handle absolutely anything, but is a pain to interface with.<div>
<br></div><div>PythonMagickWand looks pretty nice, I just wish someone would sit down and do a decent interface for the native GraphicsMagick API since at least I've found ImageMagick to be more of a pain to build/maintain!</div>
<div><br></div><div>Alec</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Kimball Bighorse <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kbighorse@yahoo.com">kbighorse@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Turns out it's for favicons, and apparently PIL isn't good about transparent images. Does ImageMagick/FreeImage win out in this case? We were using an alpha setting and a pythonmagickwand.wand.LANCZOS_FILTER filter, is there anything like this in PIL?<br>
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Kimball<br>
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