[Image-SIG] Resizing images

2007-02-22 Thread Chris MacKenzie
Hi, I am doing a vast amount of work in photoshop cs2 and then resizing images into multiple sizes for email, web publication, printing out on A3, A4 etc,etc. To date I have been using PhotoShop actions which is a real pain. I have used PIL with python in a programming environment and am aware

Re: [Image-SIG] Resizing images

2007-02-22 Thread Matthew Nuzum
On 2/20/07, Chris MacKenzie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am doing a vast amount of work in photoshop cs2 and then resizing images > into multiple sizes for email, web publication, printing out on A3, A4 > etc,etc. To date I have been using PhotoShop actions which is a real pain. > My Question is

Re: [Image-SIG] Resizing images

2007-02-22 Thread Matthew Nuzum
Well, the only way to know for sure is to try it... you could probably whip up a quick and dirty solution in 1-2 hours. And, while I'm sure PIL is as good or better than ImageMagick, different algorithms can sometimes produce different results, so you want to try it out too to see which works best

[Image-SIG] PNG patch for reading zTXt chunks

2007-02-22 Thread Lowell Alleman
Here is a patch to add support for reading compressed text chunks (zTXt) and storing them in the info dictionary. With this patch, both compressed and uncompressed (tEXt) text chunks can be accessed uniformly. I've come across some text tag discussions on this mailing list from many years ago.

Re: [Image-SIG] Resizing images

2007-02-22 Thread John Barratt
Hi Chris, Chris MacKenzie wrote: > I am doing a vast amount of work in photoshop cs2 and then resizing > images into multiple sizes for email, web publication, printing out on > A3, A4 etc,etc. To date I have been using PhotoShop actions which is a > real pain. > > I have used PIL with python

Re: [Image-SIG] Resizing images

2007-02-22 Thread Douglas Bagnall
Chris MacKenzie wrote: >> My Question is will resizing in PIL reduce the image quality compared to >> CS2 or will it remain the same as the CS2 output. I don't know about Photoshop, but this thread http://mail.python.org/pipermail/image-sig/2005-May/003310.html will tell you that this functio

[Image-SIG] problems with selftest on OS X intel XServe

2007-02-22 Thread cristopher pierson ewing
Hi all, I'm trying to build PIL to include it in python for support of a zope/plone installation. All my tests so far have been on a dev machine with the pre-built binaries, which include PIL. Now I'm working on my server, a new Intel XServe box running OS X 10.4.8. I'm working with a compil