nikie wrote: > Philippe Martin wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Thanks to the NG, I got the script hereunder working. >> >> 1) I am not certain that the call to convert does much (checking the doc) > > I think you only need it if your source image comes in a format that > can't be stored into a jpeg file (e.g. 8-bit paletted). You'll need > that if you're converting from GIF files, for example. It shouldn't > hurt otherwise.
OK > >> 2) Can this be improved as far as the final image size in (X,Y) ? > > I'm not sure if I get you: You tell the image object it's new > (X,Y)-size in the resize method, don't you? Yes, I keep reducing the (X,Y) size as long as the file is too large (in bytes) > >> For instance, passing a large .jpg with a target byte size of 7000, I get >> final (X,Y) results around (213, 174) ... but might want to strech it a >> bit while keeping the byte size. > > If I got you right, you want to compress the image to a certain file > size. Maybe you should try optimizing the additional save parameters > for the jpeg encoder. > (http://www.pythonware.com/library/pil/handbook/formats.htm). Try > reducing the "quality" parameter. > l_image.save(l_tmp_file_name, quality=25) > That might be it !!! Thanks, Philippe > Hope this helps. > > Niki -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
