Hi All,
I've been testing today in Python, trying to get a MapScript imageObj into an
python Image object. This works via the following code:
map.transparent = MS_ON
map.selectOutputFormat('png8')
map.outputformat.imagemode = MS_IMAGEMODE_RGBA
map.outputformat.transparent = MS_ON
img = map.draw()
mem_png = StringIO.StringIO(img.saveToString())
_img = Image.open(mem_png)
However, the _img file lost its transparency, even though it's still (or again)
PNG. There MUST be a better way of getting the PNG file into PIL, right?
Something besides writing it to a tempfile, opening it, and deleting it?
On a side note, I only use this rendered image temporarily, I only need to cut
it up in smaller bits and return those to my client. So if there's some sort of
format that supports transparcency but without the PNG compression overhead,
that would be even better!
Regards,
Jelmer Baas
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