Saving PNG files using Win32 PIL

[Jürgen Hermann]

"Loris Caren" <loris at caren.demon.co.uk> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:397D9274.FEB1132D at caren.demon.co.uk...
> I've writen a script to generate PNG images using PIL.  It works a treat
> under Linux, but when I try to port it to MSWindows, the
> PIL/PngImagePlugin spits saying that I don't have a zip encoder. I
> already have a copy of pkzip, but I got hold of a copy of gzip.exe and
> stuck it in C:\Windows\zip.exe but to no avail. Can anyone confirm that
> I need a zip executable, or is the PIL wanting a DLL, etc?

A possible cause (I'm guessing here) is that you need to install the Python
Win32 extensions.