[reportlab-users] Patch: PIL images with ReportLab

[Robin Becker]

Sam Hunter wrote:
> Okay I think we can have cake and eat it too.  With "ImageReader is the 
> preferred  image type" idea in mind, how about just a small patch which 
> detects if a PIL image is passed to drawImage(), and if so, wraps it in 
> an ImageReader object which has the patch I previous posted.  This 
> supports the idea of keeping ImageReader as the primary image type, 
> allows PIL images to be used transparently, and streamlines things from 
> the user's perspective.  I also don't think that it should cause a 
> problem for Java related usage?
> 
> canvas.py,  drawImage(self, image, x, y, width=None, height=None, 
> mask=None):
> Original:
....

I think that's the general idea; the question is should we allow only 
ImageReaders/filenames to be passed in or some other types ie where does the 
wrapping take place in user space or in a hidden fashion inside the various 
methods. I suspect the users will say wrap it for me and I'll want to make the 
users do it :)

the difficulty for the internal wrap model is that if PIL then why not other 
things. Or should we just say that the image reference passed in should be 
acceptable to ImageReader's constructor?
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Robin Becker