[Image-SIG] Help with ImageMagick-Python

[Chuck Esterbrook]

At 11:28 AM 2/9/2001 -0800, Chris Cogdon wrote:
>On Thu, 8 Feb 2001, Chuck Esterbrook wrote:
>
> > At 12:08 AM 2/8/2001 -0800, Chris Cogdon wrote:
> > >Has anyone out there successfully employed python and ImageMagick? If so,
> > >I'm more than happy to put the effort into getting a module running that
> > >anyone can use. Perhaps even pick up maintaining Zack's project if he
> > >doesn't want to do it himself.
> >
> > I'm definitely interested in this, but haven't had any time to put into it
> > yet. I too need an imaging library and PIL currently has too many problems
> > for serious use.
>
>I had a go at starting the interface last night... I think I'll stop.
>ImageMagick has one of the /worst/ APIs I've seen in my life! :)

Interesting. The command line for mogrify looked pretty straightforward. I 
had contemplated creating a Python class that does os.system() *if* 
ImageMagick has less issues than PIL (more file format support, better 
resizing, save GIF to JPEG with no hassles).


>I might go back to PIL and fix it up. Perhaps take the resampling code
>from ImageMagick and port it to PIL. ALl the other problems it has should
>be fairly easy to fix up.
>
>I wrote to pythonware to see if they were interested in a contra deal: I
>supply a test bed (I've got about 70,000 images on my site from 1,300
>different people, with who-knows how many different programs writing
>them), in exchange for access to their development code. I've yet to hear
>a reply to that one.

Sounds interesting. That's a heck of a test suite.  :-)

I also investigated PyGIMP, but I found it a lot harder to get going than 
PIL. I couldn't even launch GIMP in command-line only mode.


Well if you have any more updates, please pass them on. I'll do the same.

-Chuck