It would be great if someone could post a how-to readable by newbies that specifically linked to the current versions of all needed files instead of another endless search of 'somewhere in the sourceforge site'.
OK, here's my solution. So far, this seems to have worked fine (i.e. I can run the thumbnailer script below without a problem). I didn't actually have any problems with PIL so far other than finding that I needed to install the Tcl DLLs mentioned below... I have... - Windows 2000 Server SP2 (in case it matters) - Zope 2.5.1 (just the regular downloaded binary) installed on it. - Another machine with a regular install of Python. Could be the same machine as the server, I guess - but I used my workstation. - PIL from Pythonware. The link is "Python Imaging Library 1.1.2 for Python 2.1.1" and the file is called "py21-pil-1.1.2-20010910.exe" Install the downloaded PIL on the other machine and you'll get some files in C:\py21. Put the _imaging.pyd file from C:\py21\DLLs into Zope\bin\lib\win32. You don't need the _imagingtk.pyd file because Zope doesn't do Tk stuff. You need to copy the tcl83.dll and tk83.dll files from the regular install of Python into Zope\bin\lib\win32. If you don't do this, the server throws DLL errors on the console. I have no idea why it needs the Tk DLL, but it does! Put the entire PIL directory in Zope\lib\python. Restart your Zope and then try something out. I used a thumbnailer script from a recipe at ZopeLabs, installed in the Extensions folder and referenced with an External Method: --------------------------------- import PIL.Image import cStringIO def make_thumb(self, image, width, height): """ make a thumbnail from a Zope image """ oriImage = self.restrictedTraverse(image) oriFile = cStringIO.StringIO(oriImage.data) image = PIL.Image.open(oriFile) image.thumbnail((int(width), int(height))) image_type = image.format thumbnailImage = cStringIO.StringIO() image.save(thumbnailImage, image_type) thumbnailImage.seek(0) return thumbnailImage.getvalue() --------------------------------- Let me know if it works or if I just got lucky. Oh, the only credit I take for this is adding the Tcl and Tk dlls, everything else I found on assorted mailing list archives somewhere (I forget now). Cheers, Julian. ___________ Julian Melville Select Australasia mailto:jmelville@selectaustralasia.com.au http://www.selectaustralasia.com.au/