pil vs gd

[Andrew M. Kuchling]

John Leach writes:
>gd does what I need; but in order to get some sort of context - does pil
>provide, or is intended to provide one day, a superset of gd - or are
>they separate beasts?

	PIL is far more powerful than gd, and is aiming at a more
ambitious target; it can handle formats other than GIF, for a
start. PIL can also do image-processing things like adjusting image
brightness or contrast, blurring or sharpening, and all that sort of
thing.

>Can pil for example create gif images from text? And with a choice of
>fonts?

	Yes, but the font support isn't very well-documented, at least
in 1.0b1, so learning to use it requires poking around in the source
code.

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