Michiel Sikma wrote: > 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? > PIL, the Python Imaging Library, would seem to be the ideal candidate. See
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