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Pillow
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Pillow is the "friendly" PIL fork, by Alex Clark.
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PIL is the Python Imaging Library, by Fredrik Lundh.
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Introduction
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The fork author's goal is to foster active development of PIL through:
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- Publicized development activity
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- Solicitation for community contributions
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- Regular releases to the Python Packaging Index
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Why a fork?
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PIL is not setuptools compatible. Please see http://mail.python.org/pipermail/image-sig/2010-August/006480.html for a more detailed explanation. Also, PIL's current bi-yearly (or greater) release schedule is unable to accomodate the number and frequency of issues reported.
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What about image code bugs?
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Please report any non-packaging related issues here first:
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- https://bitbucket.org/effbot/pil-2009-raclette/issues
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Then open a ticket here:
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- https://github.com/python-imaging/Pillow/issues
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and provide a link to the first ticket so we can track the issue(s) upstream.
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Documentation
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The API documentation included with PIL has been converted (from HTML) to
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reStructured text (via pandoc) and is now `hosted by readthedocs.org <http://pillow.readthedocs.org>`_.
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What follows is the original PIL 1.1.7 README contents.
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Python Imaging Library
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======================
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Introduction
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The Python Imaging Library (PIL) adds image processing capabilities
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to your Python environment. This library provides extensive file
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format support, an efficient internal representation, and powerful
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image processing capabilities.
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This source kit has been built and tested with Python 2.0 and newer,
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on Windows, Mac OS X, and major Unix platforms. Large parts of the
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library also work on 1.5.2 and 1.6.
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The main distribution site for this software is:
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http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/
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That site also contains information about free and commercial support
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options, PIL add-ons, answers to frequently asked questions, and more.
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Development versions (alphas, betas) are available here:
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http://effbot.org/downloads/
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The PIL handbook is not included in this distribution; to get the
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latest version, check:
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http://www.pythonware.com/library/
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For installation and licensing details, see below.
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Support Options
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Commercial Support
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Secret Labs (PythonWare) offers support contracts for companies using
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the Python Imaging Library in commercial applications, and in mission-
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critical environments. The support contract includes technical support,
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bug fixes, extensions to the PIL library, sample applications, and more.
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For the full story, check:
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http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/support.htm
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Free Support
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For support and general questions on the Python Imaging Library, send
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e-mail to the Image SIG mailing list:
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image-sig@python.org
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You can join the Image SIG by sending a mail to:
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image-sig-request@python.org
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Put "subscribe" in the message body to automatically subscribe to the
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list, or "help" to get additional information. Alternatively, you can
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send your questions to the Python mailing list, python-list@python.org,
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or post them to the newsgroup comp.lang.python. DO NOT SEND SUPPORT
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QUESTIONS TO PYTHONWARE ADDRESSES.
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Software License
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See COPYING
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