Re: JPEGs
Robert Greschke <[email protected]>
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Oops. Didn't hit the Reply All. > On 2015-11-16, at 12:39, Robert Greschke <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> On 2015-11-16, at 12:14, Michael Lange <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> On Mon, 16 Nov 2015 11:50:44 -0700 >> Robert Greschke <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Why can't I go >>> >>> Pic = PhotoImage(file = "./lp.jpg") >>> >>> ? >>> >>> Are JPEGs not popular enough yet, or am I missing something? This is >>> one of the craziest restrictions to Tkinter I can think of. I wish I >>> knew how to fix it, but I just ain't smart enough. >>> >>> No, I don't want to use PIL. I'd like to make imbedded help that is >>> just simple text-picture-text-picture, instead of just text. Yes, the >>> pictures could be PNGs, but, again, are JPEGs just not popular enough, >>> or is it a licensing thing of some sort? >> >> reading https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG#Patent_issues I figure that >> it might be the latter. >> If you don't want to use PIL, maybe tkimg is an option for you? If not I >> am afraid you will have to stick with PNGs or GIFs. >> >> Best regards >> >> Michael >> > > Yup, looks like it. (Cool article.) I guess Dick the Butcher had the right idea. :) > > I can do PNGs for the help pictures, but I guess I'll just have to suck it up and use PIL for my extracurricular project -- extracting artwork from music and video files and making thumbnails. Darn it. > > How come PIL can get away with it? > > Thanks! > Bob > >