Hello,
I've had similar problems with PIL, you may want to take a look at OpenCV it
can open rather large images and resize them.
  Thanks
  Andrew

On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 7:07 AM, Craig Coleman (C) <
craig.cole...@ordnancesurvey.co.uk> wrote:

> **
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a really thorny problem.
>
> I need to downsample a raster map that is 23622x23622 pixels to 7874x7874
> pixels using the ANTIALIAS filter.
>
> I have the following Python code:
>
> >>> import Image
> >>> img = Image.open(r"C:\temp\24bit_nd.tif")
> >>> nimg = img.resize((7874,7874),Image.ANTIALIAS)
>
> As soon as the resize method is called, python crashes instantly.  I
> presume this is a memory allocation issue.
>
> Is there another way of performing anti-aliasing on such a large image (its
> 2.7GB uncompressed although I'm using LZW for storage).
>
> I have tried converting the file to 8bit with a palette and this
> successfully downsamples but the ANTIALIAS is not performed.  What am I
> doing wrong?
>
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