For those willing to run a test by themselves, here I've uploaded the perfect image for a testing purpose: http://www.zope.org/Members/ausum/testfolder/catamaran.jpg Don't forget to tell what you have found. :) Ausum Ron Bickers wrote:
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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've been running some tests with my Photo product that uses PIL and comparing it to the output of mogrify and I can barely tell any difference in any of the rendered images. I've resized 1024x768 JPG to 480x'whatever' and 128x'whatever' and I don't see enough difference to say ImageMagick is better. In fact, parts of the image seem better with PIL and other parts with IM. Am I missing something? What options should I be using for mogrify?
If people are disatisfied with PIL resizes, I'd like to provide an alternative, but IM isn't nearly as Python friendly. _______________________
Ron Bickers Logic Etc, Inc.