Re: IMGCrush (New Python image optimizing tool)
On Sep 5, 4:30 pm, a...@pythoncraft.com (Aahz) wrote: In article a66eaf23-ef2f-49bd-9a5a-d7e35e3b0...@l13g2000yqb.googlegroups.com, kiithsa...@gmail.com kiithsa...@gmail.com wrote: Requires ImageMagick and Python (coded in python 2.x, I'm running 2.6 but it might run on older python as well) Why are you using ImageMagick instead of PIL? -- Aahz (a...@pythoncraft.com) * http://www.pythoncraft.com/ Look, it's your affair if you want to play with five people, but don't go calling it doubles. --John Cleese anticipates Usenet Mainly because it started as an ImageMagick based bash script :p. But ImageMagicks ability to load just about any format helps. Also, from what I see in PIL docs, it doesn't seem to allow to set as many format specific saving options (especially various rarely used PNG options), which is extremely important for IMGCrush. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: IMGCrush (New Python image optimizing tool)
In article a66eaf23-ef2f-49bd-9a5a-d7e35e3b0...@l13g2000yqb.googlegroups.com, kiithsa...@gmail.com kiithsa...@gmail.com wrote: Requires ImageMagick and Python (coded in python 2.x, I'm running 2.6 but it might run on older python as well) Why are you using ImageMagick instead of PIL? -- Aahz (a...@pythoncraft.com) * http://www.pythoncraft.com/ Look, it's your affair if you want to play with five people, but don't go calling it doubles. --John Cleese anticipates Usenet -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
IMGCrush (New Python image optimizing tool)
Hello people, I started to work on a small Python script to simplify mass conversion of images for a website I was working on. I eventually got interested in the script more than the site istelf, and it got a lot bigger, so I released it as an opensource project It's licensed under BSD and not very polished yet, but I think I reached a point where it's at least partially usable. It should run on most Unixes but it's not compatible with Windows (using unix shell). IMGCrush (as it's called) tries to save given image (or images, it can process directories of images as well) with the smallest possible filesize, so it works similarly to pngcrush and other png optimizers, with the exception that it can also save to GIF, JPG, PNG, and user can specify image quality loss he/she can tolerate. The way it's used is that the user for instance specfies that he/she wants an image with smallest possible size with at least 99% quality or the highest quality image with 50% of size of input, etc. (there are also other ways to measure quality/size). Quality isn't measured in a very human way now, which will hopefully change in future. IMGCrush is also quite slow at the moment, and will probably never be fast, but it can be a lot faster than it is now. Project is hosted at Launchpad: Homepage link: https://launchpad.net/icrush Downloads: https://launchpad.net/icrush/+download Use at your own risk :-) run imgcrush --help for usage instructions. Criticism/ideas/whatever is welcome. -Kiith-Sa -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
Re: IMGCrush (New Python image optimizing tool)
On Sep 2, 8:59 pm, kiithsa...@gmail.com kiithsa...@gmail.com wrote: Hello people, I started to work on a small Python script to simplify mass conversion of images for a website I was working on. I eventually got interested in the script more than the site istelf, and it got a lot bigger, so I released it as an opensource project It's licensed under BSD and not very polished yet, but I think I reached a point where it's at least partially usable. It should run on most Unixes but it's not compatible with Windows (using unix shell). IMGCrush (as it's called) tries to save given image (or images, it can process directories of images as well) with the smallest possible filesize, so it works similarly to pngcrush and other png optimizers, with the exception that it can also save to GIF, JPG, PNG, and user can specify image quality loss he/she can tolerate. The way it's used is that the user for instance specfies that he/she wants an image with smallest possible size with at least 99% quality or the highest quality image with 50% of size of input, etc. (there are also other ways to measure quality/size). Quality isn't measured in a very human way now, which will hopefully change in future. IMGCrush is also quite slow at the moment, and will probably never be fast, but it can be a lot faster than it is now. Project is hosted at Launchpad: Homepage link:https://launchpad.net/icrush Downloads: https://launchpad.net/icrush/+download Use at your own risk :-) run imgcrush --help for usage instructions. Criticism/ideas/whatever is welcome. -Kiith-Sa Requires ImageMagick and Python (coded in python 2.x, I'm running 2.6 but it might run on older python as well) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
