PIL question - saving JPEG

[news.west.cox.net]

I have a fairly simple Python program that uses Image and ImageDraw to
create poll results on the fly.

Because PIL only supports 256 colors for GIF and BMPs are huge (in
comparison)... I have opted to create JPEGs.

I have installed JPEG-6b and have checked to see that all of the libraries
are in the correct, expected places. But, I am still getting the following
error.

IOError: encoder jpeg not available

Anyone with some PIL experience know how to get this working? I really
appreciate any help offered.

If you need more information, just ask. I will be checking this post for
the next few days.

[Fredrik Lundh]

"news.west.cox.net" wrote:

I have a fairly simple Python program that uses Image and ImageDraw to create poll results on the
fly.

Because PIL only supports 256 colors for GIF and BMPs are huge (in comparison)... I have opted to
create JPEGs.

I have installed JPEG-6b and have checked to see that all of the libraries are in the correct,
expected places. But, I am still getting the following error.

IOError: encoder jpeg not available

have you verified that PIL's build process was able to find and link against
the JPEG libraries? here's how to fix this in 1.1.4 and earlier:

http://effbot.org/zone/pil-decoder-j...-available.htm

for 1.1.5, setting the JPEG_ROOT variable in the setup.py file should do
the trick. see comments in that file for details.

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[news.west.cox.net]

"Fredrik Lundh" <fr*****@pythonware.com> wrote in message
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"news.west.cox.net" wrote:

I have a fairly simple Python program that uses Image and ImageDraw to
create poll results on the fly.

Because PIL only supports 256 colors for GIF and BMPs are huge (in
comparison)... I have opted to create JPEGs.

I have installed JPEG-6b and have checked to see that all of the
libraries are in the correct, expected places. But, I am still getting
the following error.

IOError: encoder jpeg not available

have you verified that PIL's build process was able to find and link
against
the JPEG libraries? here's how to fix this in 1.1.4 and earlier:

http://effbot.org/zone/pil-decoder-j...-available.htm

for 1.1.5, setting the JPEG_ROOT variable in the setup.py file should do
the trick. see comments in that file for details.

</F>

Thanks for the link. However, after completing the list of changes, and
reconfiguring, remaking, rebuilding and reinstalling... still no luck.

I will try again tomorrow when I have regained a little bit of patience. If
there are any other links like this one out there I would love to give it a
shot too.

Thanks for any help.

[news.west.cox.net]

Got it working.

I needed to copy the PIL directory intp site-packages/PIL...
apparently the pyc files do not get recreated automatically.

"news.west.cox.net" <se*********@cox.net> wrote in message
news:mphad.42310$a85.20380@fed1read04...

I have a fairly simple Python program that uses Image and ImageDraw to
create poll results on the fly.

Because PIL only supports 256 colors for GIF and BMPs are huge (in
comparison)... I have opted to create JPEGs.

I have installed JPEG-6b and have checked to see that all of the libraries
are in the correct, expected places. But, I am still getting the
following error.

IOError: encoder jpeg not available

Anyone with some PIL experience know how to get this working? I really
appreciate any help offered.

If you need more information, just ask. I will be checking this post for
the next few days.

[Josiah Carlson]

On Tue, 12 Oct 2004 17:40:36 -0700
"news.west.cox.net" <se*********@cox.net> wrote:

Got it working.

I needed to copy the PIL directory intp site-packages/PIL...
apparently the pyc files do not get recreated automatically.

.pyc files are created from .py files, but if you only have .pyc files,
Python will work with them.

I would bet there weren't any .py files in site-packages/PIL.

- Josiah

[Christos TZOTZIOY Georgiou]

On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 14:00:40 -0700, rumours say that "news.west.cox.net"
<se*********@cox.net> might have written:

I have a fairly simple Python program that uses Image and ImageDraw to
create poll results on the fly.
Because PIL only supports 256 colors for GIF and BMPs are huge (in
comparison)... I have opted to create JPEGs.

Another option is to use the PNG format, especially since you create
graphs. PNGs have better quality and compression for this type of
images.
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