[Image-SIG] Opening and saving quality JPEG files

[Chris Cogdon]

On Jun 23, 2005, at 12:54, Rob Ballou wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm new to using PIL and I have what I hope is a quick question.
>
> I have created a script for displaying images to a web browser and I
> have noticed that the quality PIL saves JPEGs isn't entirely what I'm
> after. When displaying thumbnails (the main use of the script), the
> quality is great. But when displaying a full size image without
> modification, I noticed that there is some new JPEG compression taking
> place (there are pronounced JPEG compression artifacts).
>
> The code that I have is:
>
>
> im = Image.open(file)
> print "Content-type: image/%s\r\n" % im.format.lower()
> out= cStringIO.StringIO()
> im.save(out, format, quailty=100, optimize=1)
> out.reset()
> print out.read()
> out.close()
>
>
> Changing quality and the optimized attributes have little to no effect
> on the visual appearance of the image. I've tried to read the file
> directly in binary mode and print that back to the browser, but it can
> not display the image.
>
> I'm not really sure if I am going about these changes in the best
> manner. Thanks in advance for any help.

If you're not interested in processing the image, then there's no 
reason to run it through PIL

Try this:

im = Image.open(file)

print "Content-type: image/%s\n" % im.format.lower()
sys.stdout.write ( open(file).read() )

Ie... open it once so that PIL can get the format, then open it again 
to send through the web server.

I'm using 'write' to avoid the extra newline at the end of the data 
(which is a bad thing to do).

I'm also sending only a \n... the web server will automatically turn 
all newlines (\n) into NVT-ASCII newlines (\r\n). You don't want an 
extra \r in there.


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