GUI and creating GIF

[Andrew M. Kuchling]

Frank.Derville writes:
>I would like to
>1) create a GIF file under Python by drawing lines, text, ... I have looked
>at Tk which can create bitmaps and photoimage but their seem to be no
>possibility to transform a canvas into a photoimage.
>2) rotate some text on a canvas.

	The Python Imaging Library seems to be what you need; look at
http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/ .  PIL lets you create Image
objects which are bitmaps that you can draw on and manipulate in
various ways, and save Images in one of a large number of different
formats, GIF and JPEG being the most common ones.  There's also some
connectivity with Tkinter, so you can display Images on a canvas.  I'm
not sure if PIL's font code can handle rotation, though.

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