Hello everybody. I'm currently involved in a site building project in which we're going to use the Google Maps API. The user will be able to browse the site by looking over a really large image, similar to how Google Maps itself works, except with the design of the site on the background rather than a map of the world.
I initially hired someone to do it in PHP (don't bite, please :-) but it seems that I forgot about one thing: the people updating the site would have been able to upload a huge 30 MB JPEG image, which PHP would then resize to various sizes and cut them into 200x200 pieces, which would be fed to the Google Maps API. However, this costs a lot of memory, and PHP by default only has 8 MB. The programmer offered to do a C++ image manipulator, but he uses Windows and the people who update the site use Mac OS X. It would be tedious. Then I thought that Python might solve me the head-ache. I know some Python (but not much since I've never actually written that many things in it), and with some effort I could probably make a simple image manipulator frontend in it, but only if I can find a good library for doing the actual manipulation. Do any of you know such libraries? Many thanks, Michiel Sikma [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list