[CentralOH] Python Graphics Library: Pillow Gives Soft Landing

[jep200404 at columbus.rr.com]

On Mon, 10 Feb 2014 13:07:46 -0500, Kurtis Mullins <kurtis.mullins at gmail.com> wrote:

> As to a replacement for PIL -- you might be thinking of pillow.

On Mon, 10 Feb 2014 13:11:11 -0500, Eric Floehr <eric at intellovations.com> wrote:

> That would be pillow[1][2] which is a fork of PIL that promises faster
> bugfixing and a more open development model.

Thank to Kurtis and Eric for that, which led me back to: 

On Tue, 10 Dec 2013 16:57:30 -0500, jep200404 at columbus.rr.com wrote:

> Use pillow instead of PIL, because PIL has stagnated.
> https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Pillow
> https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Pillow/2.2.1
> runs on Python 3

On Mon, 10 Feb 2014 13:18:26 -0500, Eric Floehr <eric at intellovations.com> wrote:

> Matplotlib's imshow() function ...

On Tue, 11 Feb 2014 09:51:34 +0800, iynaix <iynaix at gmail.com> wrote:

> http://vimeo.com/63258721
>
> Davin Potts goes over the basics of scikit image and does exactly what you
> want at around the 10 minute mark or so. 

Something that was not clear was that imshow() exists after 
executing %pylab inline. Maybe the presenter's notebook did 
not begin with %pylab inline because he had invoked 
ipython notebook with --pylab inline option. 

>From Brandon's astronomy-notebooks, I've learned to not specify 
--pylab inline when starting ipython notebook. Instead I begin 
each notebook with a %pylab command. 

> The rest of the video is fascinating and well worth a watch as well.

Indeed. 

> A possible solution for pdfs is to use the 'convert' command from
> ImageMagick,e.g. convert in.jpg out.pdf
> 
> It isn't python, but you could whip up some bash in a jiffy.

I found PSDraw stuff of pillow that outputs postscript, 
then I used !ps2pdf to generate a PDF file. 
PSDraw is pretty crude, so I might modify it, 
or use something else such as ImageMagick or matplotlib's 
PDF capabilities as Eric wrote. Having the source code 
for PSDraw available at the click of a mouse while reading 
the dox, got me to look at it. There really is not much to it.