Re: PIL and format conversions -- Noobie.

2004-12-14 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Ron Phillips wrote: >I have a monster jpg (128 mb) that comprises a handful of colors (20 or > so, max). It should never have been compressed with jpeg compression, as > I understand it. It should have been a png or gif, since they are made > to handle blocks of a few colors. if you compress an i

PIL and format conversions -- Noobie.

2004-12-14 Thread Ron Phillips
I have a monster jpg (128 mb) that comprises a handful of colors (20 or so, max). It should never have been compressed with jpeg compression, as I understand it. It should have been a png or gif, since they are made to handle blocks of a few colors.   I used PIL to convert it to png and to gi