[reportlab-users] Error reporting: please say what image is failing

[Roberto Alsina]

On Thursday 18 March 2010 08:04:29 Robin Becker wrote:

> > Roberto, how should rst2pdf behave if an image is missing?  Should it

> > fail on first error, or does it have any modes to continue-but-warn,

> > or put dummy image placeholders in the PDF?      You probably have

> > issues we have had in the past with RML...

> 

> Looking in the ImageReader code there is a specific exception being made

> for PIL  1.1.7 because that did cause a problem with split ie

> 

>         if mode=='RGBA':

>                 if Image.VERSION.startswith('1.1.7'): im.load()

>                 self._dataA = ImageReader(im.split()[3])

>                 im = im.convert('RGB')

>                 self.mode = 'RGB'

> 

> can we find some details on the PIL version etc etc.


I think this specific problem is that one (the split in .png images bug in PIL 
1.1.7).  At least I haven't seen it anywhere else.