[Image-SIG] Image quality when resizing

[Chuck Esterbrook]

At 04:47 PM 1/21/2001 +0200, Hannu Krosing wrote:
>You could try to automate it using Gimp if quality is paramount and PIL
>can't offer acceptable quality.
>
>AFAIK it has python scripting support.
>
>--------------
>Hannu


That's a good point and in fact, I took a crack at this. I was able to get 
PIL up and running in less than 60 minutes. After 3 hours with GIMP I still 
couldn't get it to invoke from the command line let alone from Python. 
Apparently GIMP is lost without an active X server that belongs to the user 
invoking GIMP (and my Linux machine is remote). I have no idea why this is 
a requirement. They have documented a trick for getting around this, but it 
failed me on Mandrake Linux 7.0.

So I thought I would come back to PIL to see how active and supported it 
was. If things look pretty dry, then I'll go back to GIMP.


Thanks for the suggestion,
-Chuck