Saving PNG files using Win32 PIL

[Olivier Dagenais]

http://www.pythonware.com/downloads.htm

Says this, near the end of the page:

"Optional support libraries must be downloaded separately: jpeg and zlib."

...you'll want to follow the zlib link:
ftp://ftp.freesoftware.com/.0/infozip/zlib/zlib.html

The zlib library is used for manipulating PNG files...

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Olivier A. Dagenais - Carleton University - Computer Science III


"Jürgen Hermann" <jhe at webde-ag.de> wrote in message
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> "Loris Caren" <loris at caren.demon.co.uk> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
> news:397D9274.FEB1132D at caren.demon.co.uk...
> > I've writen a script to generate PNG images using PIL.  It works a treat
> > under Linux, but when I try to port it to MSWindows, the
> > PIL/PngImagePlugin spits saying that I don't have a zip encoder. I
> > already have a copy of pkzip, but I got hold of a copy of gzip.exe and
> > stuck it in C:\Windows\zip.exe but to no avail. Can anyone confirm that
> > I need a zip executable, or is the PIL wanting a DLL, etc?
>
> A possible cause (I'm guessing here) is that you need to install the
Python
> Win32 extensions.
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