Andrea Gavana wrote: > I am using PIL to load and display some pictures (via wxPython) in a > GUI. I have added the ability for the user to change the linear > dimensions of the image (in pixels) and the quality of the image in > order for the image to be saved in another file. > I was wondering if is there a way to know in advance, based on the > pixel dimensions specified by the user and by the image quality, which > file size (in > bytes) I will obtain for the new image (approximatively). Is there a > way to obtain such result without actually saving the image?
The answer is really no, since it depends on the complexity of the picture. A solid square of one color is highly compressible, and a photo of a tall ship's rigging is relatively hard to compress. You can compress to a cStringIO file (and so not have to actually hit the disk) to get a size, ten discard the cStringIO object. -- --Scott David Daniels [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
