[Zope] Re: image hot fix

[Andy McKay]

> 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.

If you want to get really whacky, I happily used a python wrapper, by using
pyperl around the perl one. Worked fine for me and the perl module is more
complete than than the python one, performance was probably not the best
though :)

Cheers.
--
  Andy McKay.