make images with python

[Lawrence D'Oliveiro]

In message <mailman.2012.1187186603.22759.python-list at python.org>, Boris
Borcic wrote:

> Lawrence Oluyede wrote:
>
>> stefano <ssalvatori at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I need make some images using python but i'm lost :P
>> 
>> <http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/>
>> 
> 
> If you want to do antialiased drawings into images,
> you might rather want to look for pil at
> 
> http://effbot.org/downloads/
> 
> and grab PIL together with the aggdraw extension
> (while "core" PIL includes some drawing primitives,
> last time I tried they weren't antialiased).

I see that PIL supports image resizing
<http://www.pythonware.com/library/pil/handbook/image.htm> with filters
that can be used for antialiasing. So just do all your drawing at, say,
200% scale, then downsample with Image.resize to antialias.