Hello, I am new to this list, having gotten involved in a project at work that uses PIL. I am looking for guidance in a few areas, hoping to find a better way than our methods for manipulating images.
We have a workflow which involves converting various file formats to TIFF, and allowing them to be viewed and manipulated in a wxPython app. Currently we are calling on some external binaries to perform these conversions on a Linux server, and in some cases the Windows desktop clients have to do some conversions as well. It would be nice if there were some more Python native approaches available. The goal is to get everything into a compressed TIFF format. Currently we do that for Word documents and PDF documents. We also need to convert between multipage TIFF and single page TIFF. Here is a list of the image conversions we are performing: * One of the Python scripts is calling Linux tiffsplit command to convert multipage faxes (TIFF group 4 compressed) into collections of single page TIFFs. * The wxPython app is calling GnuWin32's tiffcp.exe to rejoin single page TIFFs into multipage TIFFs. * We're calling the ImageMagick convert command to make PDFs into TIFFs. * We're calling an Open Office 1.1.5 command line tool to convert Word documents to PDF (which then get converted to TIFF by ImageMagick). In some of these cases there may be C libraries we could wrap, but if someone has already done that work or if there is a better approach I would be grateful to hear about it. Thanks! _______________________________________________ Image-SIG maillist - Image-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/image-sig
