PIL questions: still supported? Problems on 2.7 for win? alternatives?

[cjgohlke at gmail.com]

On Monday, September 24, 2012 4:38:05 PM UTC-7, alex23 wrote:
> On Sep 25, 6:04 am, Gelonida N <gelon... at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > This all does not sound very comforting. Why is there no fix on the
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> > official site?
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> Has a bug been logged about the issue?
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See issue #1 at <http://hg.effbot.org/pil-117/issue/1/windows-build-of-_imagingft-module-fails>

Christoph

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> The Plone community keeps a fairly up-to-date fork called Pillow,
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> we've had a lot of success using that locally:
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> http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Pillow/