Modifying JPEG compression with PIL?

[Dinu C. Gherman]

Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> 
> Dinu C. Gherman <gherman at darwin.in-berlin.de> wrote:
> > Sorry, but I always fail to find appropriate PIL documenta-
> > tion, so forgive me when I ask if using PIL I can take a JPEG
> > and increase its compression, so it will shrink in file size
> > (and lose data as well)? If so, where can I read how to do
> > it?
> 
> im.save("foo.jpg", quality=50)
> 
> http://www.pythonware.com/library/pil/handbook/image.htm
> http://www.pythonware.com/library/pil/handbook/formats.htm
> 
> </F>
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Thanks Fredrik! I'll bookmark it right away!

Dinu

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