does it work any better with: surf_1 = surf.subsurface((0,0,50,50)).copy()
... convert_alpha should make it have alpha, which may be bad for jpeg, while copy should keep everything as it was On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 4:24 PM, Brad Montgomery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know this a kind of an old thread, but does this trick work for file > formats that don't have an alpha channel? > > On Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 10:11 PM, Phil Hassey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Indeed... Anyway - this is how I would do it: > > surf_1 = surf.subsurface((0,0,50,50)).convert_alpha() > > I'm writing an application that lets me crop images, and I just want > to get a copy of an image using a Rect (keeping the part inside the > Rect). > > However, when I save the image using pygame.image.save, I end up with > corrupted images. I'm trying to save the new images as the same file > type of the parent (ie: jpg). After saving and trying to open the > image, I receive this: > Error interpreting JPEG image file (Not a JPEG file: starts with 0x00 0x00) > > Thanks for any info. > > brad >
