[Zope] Zope & Gimp & Win32

[Anders Schneiderman]

Joseph,

At this point, I'm most interested in creating buttons, banners, and other =
graphic elements for some web-creating tools we're developing.  From what =
I can see from the documentation for PIL and DevIL, it's possible to do =
some of this, but they don't seem to have the scope of features that the =
world of Gimp/Photoshop/Paint Shop Pro offer.  =20

I could be wrong, though.  If anyone has examples on their website of =
using PIL or DevIL for sophisticated web graphic work that involves =
creating new images, I'd love to check it out.  For ex, the simplest thing =
I want to do is to let a user type in text & choose between several colors =
and styles and then generate a bunch of buttons, which might be bevelled, =
plus a page banner graphic.  Can I do this in PIL w/o driving myself nuts? =
 If so, do you have any exs of what the code to do so looks like?  I've =
seen posts where someone claimed that you can do this in PIL but I've =
never seen any examples & didn't see a relatively painless way to do it =
explained in the (very brief) documentation.

Thanks,
Anders

>>> "Joseph Griffin" <jgriffin@pclnet.net> 10/09/02 02:21PM >>>
Anders,
Is there a specific reason that you're using Gimp? PIL and DevIL are two =
other=20
libs that I have ran across for dynamic image generation (and PyOpenGL =
of=20
course). Sounds neat. Joseph
On Wed, 09 Oct 2002 13:16:46 -0400, Anders Schneiderman wrote
> I'm trying to create a product that will dynamically create pictures=20
> by calling Gimp from Zope.  Eventually the code will run on a Linux=20
> server, but for now I'm on a Windows box.   Has anyone ever done =
this?=20
>  If so, any pointers on how to go about calling Gimp from a Zope =
product?
>=20
> Thanks,
> Anders Schneiderman
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