[Zope-CMF] File support: some resources

seb bacon seb@jamkit.com
Mon, 4 Jun 2001 11:29:39 +0100


* marc lindahl <marc@bowery.com> [010601 18:04]:
> 
> 
> > From: seb bacon <seb@jamkit.com>
> 
> > Imagemagick would do the trick with PSDs and any other image format in
> > the world.  It's a shame the pyMagick module seems to have disappeared
> > from the face of the web.
> > 
> > http://www.imagemagick.org
> 
> Yeah.... it seems that PIL is perhaps more supportable... though it's
> installation seems a bit crazy... it does come with Redhat.

PIL won't do PSDs, AFAIK.  Perhaps it's not such a bad thing to
convert documents using command line utils via os.system() and
friends.  Are the implications on resource usage in this scenario very
severe, or are the real problems error handling, etc? 

seb