As an emergency solution I think VIPS has support for large images. It has python bindings, but they are not so nice and well documented as PIL.
On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 6:52 PM, B. Bogart<b...@ekran.org> wrote: > Hello all, > > I want to create a very large RGBA image (96000x72000 pixels). > > I have 4GB of RAM. > > Is there an easy way of getting around this error by having PIL only > allocate one section of the image at a time? > > If PIL does not have any internal trick to work with large images then > I'll have to make 4+ smaller images one at a time, but then I'm not sure > how I could combine them without needing to allocate a memory chunk for > the whole image. > > Otherwise I suppose I'll have to try with some other language, perhaps > C/SDL, though a quick calculation seems to show that such a large RGBA > image is just unworkable. Is there some way of using disk space rather > than memory? Does not matter if it is slow, just that it is possible! > > Any advice? > > Thanks, > B. > _______________________________________________ > Image-SIG maillist - image-...@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/image-sig > -- Phatch Photo Batch Processor - http://photobatch.stani.be SPE Python IDE - http://pythonide.stani.be _______________________________________________ Image-SIG maillist - Image-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/image-sig
