[Image-SIG] Re: jpg to PCL

[Fredrik Lundh]

Jody Burgess wrote:

> I am new to the list and to python in general. I have a question for the
> list; are there any methods in python to convert either Group3/4 Tiff images
> or jpg images to PCL or PostScript? I've look among some of the libraries
> and was not able to determine if it can be done in python or not. Any help
> with this issue would be greatly appreciated.

the Python Imaging Library can read JPEG files, and generate PostScript.
it cannot read TIFF G3/G4 files, nor write PCL.

to handle TIFF G3/G4, you can usually use the libtiff utilities to preprocess
the images before opening them (e.g. "tifftopnm myfile.tif temp.pbm").

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