Brad Allen wrote: > Has anyone here worked with PythonMagick? There is no clear > documentation on how to get it working, no setup.py, and it looks > like some necessary modules are missing (the __init__.py refers to > modules that are not present). > > http://www.imagemagick.org/script/api.php#python > > Here are comments from a Perl developer who may decide not to switch > to Python because of lack of ImageMagick support. > > http://sxoop.wordpress.com/2006/11/29/whither-pythonmagick/ > > Excerpt: "I want to give Python a chance. I really do. But things > don't look too promising on the ImageMagick front." > > For my part, I need an ImageMagick capability that I have yet to find > elsewhere, namely the ability to rotate TIFF files with Group 4 > compression, with no loss of compression. If anyone has knows a > better way, I would appreciate hearing about it. > _______________________________________________ > Image-SIG maillist - Image-SIG@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/image-sig > I'm not an ImageMagick, but I found this somewhat dated (Dec-2005) posting that may be of value:
""" FWIW: I tried PythonMagick for a while, but soon found that large or complex images caused it to consume excessive memory and sometimes crash, taking my application with it. I switched to the command line interface to isolate my application from problems in Graphics/ImageMagick. Everything ended up much more robust that way, and the time cost is small--it's on the order of milliseconds. """ from http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2005-December/355374.html -- jv _______________________________________________ Image-SIG maillist - Image-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/image-sig
