[Image-SIG] whither PythonMagick?
Jim Vickroy
Jim.Vickroy at noaa.gov
Wed May 23 16:38:01 CEST 2007
Brad Allen wrote:
> Has anyone here worked with PythonMagick? There is no clear
> documentation on how to get it working, no setup.py, and it looks
> like some necessary modules are missing (the __init__.py refers to
> modules that are not present).
>
> http://www.imagemagick.org/script/api.php#python
>
> Here are comments from a Perl developer who may decide not to switch
> to Python because of lack of ImageMagick support.
>
> http://sxoop.wordpress.com/2006/11/29/whither-pythonmagick/
>
> Excerpt: "I want to give Python a chance. I really do. But things
> don't look too promising on the ImageMagick front."
>
> For my part, I need an ImageMagick capability that I have yet to find
> elsewhere, namely the ability to rotate TIFF files with Group 4
> compression, with no loss of compression. If anyone has knows a
> better way, I would appreciate hearing about it.
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I'm not an ImageMagick, but I found this somewhat dated (Dec-2005)
posting that may be of value:
"""
FWIW: I tried PythonMagick for a while, but soon found that large or
complex images caused it to consume excessive memory and sometimes
crash, taking my application with it. I switched to the command line
interface to isolate my application from problems in
Graphics/ImageMagick. Everything ended up much more robust that way,
and the time cost is small--it's on the order of milliseconds.
"""
from http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2005-December/355374.html
-- jv
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