[PyX-user] PIL-Pyx integration

[Eugene M. M. <em...@ge...>]

Hello.

Yesterday I read about your grahp module and thinking following:
1) PyX is a very flexible and powerfull instrument, because it
   based on the PostScript language and TeX.
2) graph is a very useful and simple to use instrument

But there are some "spoon of wood-tar in the barrel of honey"
(This is russian idiom)

3) PyX working very slowly. If I need the quick method to produse
diagram, I forced to use PIL, not a PyX, because PyX delegate
some parts of wor to lagre external programs.

Perhaps you can improve some in the PyX, but I can't belive that
you can make PyX as speedly as PIL. And I think it's right: PyX
good for vector graphic, and PIL for raster.

I dream about some UpLevel driver for PIL which have interface
same as PyX. With this driver programmer will can abstract from
the PyX or PIL and wrote something like:

try:
    from pyx import graph
except ImportError:
    from dream import graph

Or, more wise:

def getpicture(format, *args):
    if format in ["EPS", "PDF"]:
        driver =3D pyx.graph
    else:
        driver =3D dream.graph
    ... implementation, which use driver

What do you think about? Prehaps I don't know something and this
already done by somebody, perhaps I should be write this "PIL
emulator", perhaps this may be part of the PyX.

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