Rob Shortt said the following, on 11.03.2008 14:46: > Hi Adam, > > Adam Charrett wrote: > >> Right annoyingly I thought pygame could do this, although it appears it >> will only be able to do it from the next release (1.8). >> > > I ran into that also. > > > >> So my question is what is the best way to take a pygame.Surface and save >> it as an 8bit paletised/indexed PNG? >> >> It needs to be an index PNG as Vlc won't load anything else for its logo >> filter which I am going to use to display an OSD. >> >> Any help would be much appreciated, I've had a look a kaa.imlib2 but its >> not clear to me whether I can specify the format of the PNG. I haven't had >> a look at PIL yet, but I was hoping to keep the dependencies the same as >> freevo 1. >> > > My first thought was PIL, but kaa.imlib2 should work fine as well. Take > a look at some of the mevas code in the kaa SVN. You'll likely need to > use the pygame Surface fromstring()/whatever and create in imlib2 or PIL > image with that data (both libraries have that ability). I think you > can specify the image format in imlib2, or create it as raw and then > convert it to the PNG you need. >
I had a look at the imlib2 C code and it is not clear how to specify how to set the format to 8 bit, I noticed that imlib2 uses lib png for loading an image and I guess saving one too. Duncan ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Freevo-devel mailing list Freevo-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-devel
