PIL>>> Image.open('f.GIF').save('f.jpg', 'JPEG') # ?

[Dinu C. Gherman]

Hello,

after studying the PIL tutorial I don't think I found the
proper place explaining why I get an error like this when
I try to save a GIF file in JPEG format:

>>> im = Image.open('sample.gif')
>>> im.save('sample.jpg', 'jpeg')
Traceback (innermost last):
  File "<interactive input>", line 0, in ?
  File "Image.py", line 665, in save
    SAVE[string.upper(format)](self, fp, filename)
  File "JpegImagePlugin.py", line 298, in _save
    raise IOError, "cannot write mode %s as JPEG" % im.mode
IOError: cannot write mode P as JPEG

Is it because palette mode images cannot be converted to 
JPEG? If so, can it be done with the pilconvert utility?
I haven't tested this, but if pilconvert can do it, why
isn't it possible without?

Regards,

Dinu

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