On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 2:07 PM, Michael Droettboom <md...@stsci.edu> wrote:
> We've had some requests from internal users here at STScI to make it
> easier to save JPEG files directly from matplotlib.  We currently
> support JPEG saving from the Gtk* and Wx* backends (because those
> libraries come with JPEG saving support), but not in the Tk backend that
> most of our users use.
>
> One solution to this may be to add an optional dependency on PIL, and if
> found save JPEG files (and maybe some of the other esoteric formats PIL
> supports).  The work done a couple of years back to manage the supported
> file types should make this pretty easy.
>
> While adding a hard dependency on PIL is probably not a good idea, are
> there any objections to making it a soft dependency?

No objections from me -- we already optionally use it in imread.

JDH

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