* Jerome Alet <alet@unice.fr> [010827 16:06]:
On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, Ausum wrote:
Has anyone found a workaround for the jaggy look of PIL's resized images in Zope?
So maybe you could give a look at ImageMagick, especially the "mogrify" command. I've used it only from os.system, but AFAIK there's a python module for ImageMagick which may produce better results than PIL (untested), it's called PyMagick IIRC.
I too use ImageMagick. Its quality is excellent, and it handles a huge variety of image formats (e.g. PSDs, PhotoCD...). You'll have a hard time tracking down PyMagick. However, as Shane has pointed out, is there a compelling reason for using python wrappers around native code anyway? If you use popen2 or similar modules, you get to start the conversion in a separate process, and connect to its input/output/error streams using pipes. With (potentially) intensive processes like thumbnailing a Photoshop image of unknown size, aren't you better off doing it in a separate process anyway? You could even farm off conversion routines to a separate box. seb