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From: akuchlin at cnri.reston.va.us (Andrew M. Kuchling)
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Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 10:49:00 -0400 (EDT)
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Subject: pil vs gd
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In-Reply-To: <37299C02.4095E584@vic.bigpond.net.au>
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References: <37299C02.4095E584@vic.bigpond.net.au>
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Message-ID: <14121.47115.859663.399018@amarok.cnri.reston.va.us>
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X-UID: 1441
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John Leach writes:
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>gd does what I need; but in order to get some sort of context - does pil
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>provide, or is intended to provide one day, a superset of gd - or are
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>they separate beasts?
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PIL is far more powerful than gd, and is aiming at a more
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ambitious target; it can handle formats other than GIF, for a
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start. PIL can also do image-processing things like adjusting image
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brightness or contrast, blurring or sharpening, and all that sort of
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thing.
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>Can pil for example create gif images from text? And with a choice of
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>fonts?
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Yes, but the font support isn't very well-documented, at least
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in 1.0b1, so learning to use it requires poking around in the source
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code.
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--
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A.M. Kuchling http://starship.python.net/crew/amk/
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You shouldn't trust the story-teller; only trust the story
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-- The grandfather in SANDMAN #38: "The Hunt"
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