[Zope] Re: image hot fix

[Ausum]

For those willing to run a test by themselves, here I've uploaded the
perfect image for a testing purpose:

http://www.zope.org/Members/ausum/testfolder/catamaran.jpg


Don't forget to tell what you have found.  :)


Ausum



Ron Bickers wrote:


> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: zope-admin@zope.org [mailto:zope-admin@zope.org]On Behalf Of
>
> > So maybe you could give a look at ImageMagick, especially the "mogrify"
> > command. I've used it only from os.system, but AFAIK there's a python
> > module for ImageMagick which may produce better results than PIL
> > (untested), it's called PyMagick IIRC.
>
> I've been running some tests with my Photo product that uses PIL and
> comparing it to the output of mogrify and I can barely tell any difference
> in any of the rendered images.  I've resized 1024x768 JPG to
480x'whatever'
> and 128x'whatever' and I don't see enough difference to say ImageMagick is
> better.  In fact, parts of the image seem better with PIL and other parts
> with IM.  Am I missing something?  What options should I be using for
> mogrify?
>
> If people are disatisfied with PIL resizes, I'd like to provide an
> alternative, but IM isn't nearly as Python friendly.
> _______________________
>
> Ron Bickers
> Logic Etc, Inc.
>