Automated resizing of JPEG image + making slices?

[Steve Holden]

Michiel Sikma wrote:
> Hello everybody.
> 
> I'm currently involved in a site building project in which we're  
> going to use the Google Maps API. The user will be able to browse the  
> site by looking over a really large image, similar to how Google Maps  
> itself works, except with the design of the site on the background  
> rather than a map of the world.
> 
> I initially hired someone to do it in PHP (don't bite, please :-) but  
> it seems that I forgot about one thing: the people updating the site  
> would have been able to upload a huge 30 MB JPEG image, which PHP  
> would then resize to various sizes and cut them into 200x200 pieces,  
> which would be fed to the Google Maps API. However, this costs a lot  
> of memory, and PHP by default only has 8 MB.
> 
> The programmer offered to do a C++ image manipulator, but he uses  
> Windows and the people who update the site use Mac OS X. It would be  
> tedious. Then I thought that Python might solve me the head-ache.
> 
> I know some Python (but not much since I've never actually written  
> that many things in it), and with some effort I could probably make a  
> simple image manipulator frontend in it, but only if I can find a  
> good library for doing the actual manipulation. Do any of you know  
> such libraries?
> 
PIL, the Python Imaging  Library, would seem to be the ideal candidate. See

   http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/

regards
  Steve
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