[Image-SIG] Opening TIFF and HPGL files using Python PIL getting IO Errors

[Sebastian Haase]

Satya,
maybe you can ask here:
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Chiplotle
and let us all know what you got ... ;-)

Good luck,
Sebastian Haase



On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 11:55 PM, Edward Cannon
<edward at unicornschool.org> wrote:
> HPGL is a vector format used for old HP printers, PIL doesn't open
> vector art, so no help there, you need a separate converter to turn it
> into a raster format. look at
> http://www.pythonware.com/library/pil/handbook/format-tiff.htm for
> more information about loading tiff files in PIL.
>
> On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 6:51 AM, Satya Gundapaneni
> <Satya.Gundapaneni at zimmer.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>
>>
>> I am new to Python.
>>
>> I have a requirement to extract some portion of the image and save that
>> portion.
>>
>> After some investigation in net I found out that Python and PIL has the
>> capability to crop and the image and save that image to different file.
>>
>>
>>
>> But the problem I am facing is  I am not able to open TIFF and HPGL files.
>>
>>
>>
>> When I try to open TIFF images I am getting  “IOError: decoder group4 not
>> available”
>>
>> While opening HPGL images I am getting “IOError: cannot identify image file”
>>
>>
>>
>> Will I be able to open TIFF and HPGL files in PIL or not? All my images are
>> in either TIFF or HPGL formats.
>>
>>
>>
>> Appreciate your help.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Satyanarayana Gundapaneni
>>
>> Zimmer Inc.
>>
>> 1800 W  Center St.
>>
>> Warsaw, IN 46580
>> Mailto: satya.gundapaneni at zimmer.com
>>
>> Work - 574 267 6131 Xtn 12749
>>
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