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RE: Imaging libraries in active development?

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Christian Heimes wrote:
> 
> Am 28.11.2012 19:14, schrieb Michael Torrie:
> > I'm curious.  What features do you need that pil doesn't have?  Other
> > than updating pil to fix bugs, support new image types or new versions
> > of Python, what kind of active development do you think it needs to
> > have? Maybe pil has all the features the original author wanted and is
> > pretty stable.  To judge a package on how fast it's changing seems a bit
> > odd to me.  Obviously you want to know that bugs can get fixed of
> > course.  Perhaps none have been reported recently.
> 
> PIL is missing a bunch of features like proper TIFF support (no
> multipage, g3/g4 compression and more), JPEG 2000, RAW and HDR image
> formats, tone mapping, proper ICC support, PEP 3128 buffer support ...
> 
> PIL is also rather slow. My smc.freeimage library can write JPEGs about
> six times faster, because it uses libjpeg-turbo. Only some Linux
> distributions have replaced libjpeg with the turbo implementation.
> 

Have you tried libtiff? I believe the author may read this list.
(He posted here for at least one release). 
http://code.google.com/p/pylibtiff/


Hope that helps,
Ramit


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Imaging libraries in active development? Alasdair McAndrew <amca01@gmail.com> - 2012-11-28 04:30 -0800
  Re: Imaging libraries in active development? Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2012-11-28 11:14 -0700
    Re: Imaging libraries in active development? Alasdair McAndrew <amca01@gmail.com> - 2012-11-28 22:53 -0800
      Re: Imaging libraries in active development? Adrien <adnothing@gmail.com> - 2012-11-29 10:29 +0100
        Re: Imaging libraries in active development? Alasdair McAndrew <amca01@gmail.com> - 2012-11-29 03:22 -0800
        Re: Imaging libraries in active development? Alasdair McAndrew <amca01@gmail.com> - 2012-11-29 03:22 -0800
    Re: Imaging libraries in active development? Alasdair McAndrew <amca01@gmail.com> - 2012-11-28 22:53 -0800
  Re: Imaging libraries in active development? Christian Heimes <christian@python.org> - 2012-11-28 20:00 +0100
    Re: Imaging libraries in active development? Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2012-11-28 21:11 +0000
      Re: Imaging libraries in active development? Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2012-11-28 19:27 -0500
        Imaging library zoom <zoom@yahoo.com> - 2012-11-29 10:01 +0100
      Re: Imaging libraries in active development? Christian Heimes <christian@python.org> - 2012-11-29 09:37 +0100
  Re: Imaging libraries in active development? Nobody <nobody@nowhere.com> - 2012-11-29 18:45 +0000
  RE: Imaging libraries in active development? "Prasad, Ramit" <ramit.prasad@jpmorgan.com> - 2012-11-29 23:04 +0000

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