Re: [pygame] Lossless Graphic File Formats

[Kamilche <klachemin@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kris Schnee wrote:
> By the way, I'm wondering about saving images in a lossless way, 
> preserving the exact color values of each pixel. Looks like the BMP 
> format does that, but JPG and TGA don't, and while PNG apparently does, 
> it's not supported in Pygame unless maybe I install PIL and some 
> additional module. Any advice on this? Ideally I'd be able to save 
> images in a common Web browser-readable format; PNG is probably good 
> enough.
>
> Kris

Though it will read PNG just fine, you're right, it won't save in PNG 
without PIL. What I have done is this: I try to import PIL. If it fails, 
I turn off the 'SaveAsPNG' switch. When taking screenshots, if SaveAsPNG 
is turned on, it will use PIL to save the screenshot; otherwise, it 
saves as BMP.

--Kamilche