I am looking to see if there is another way to convert a PIL Image to GTK Pixbuf.
Right now all I have is what seems to be like inefficient coding practice that I found and hacked to my needs. This is what I have so far:
def image2pixbuf(self,im):
file1 = StringIO.StringIO()
im.save(file1, "ppm")
contents = file1.getvalue()
file1.close()
loader = gtk.gdk.PixbufLoader("pnm")
loader.write(contents, len(contents))
pixbuf = loader.get_pixbuf()
loader.close()
return pixbuf
Is there some easier way to do this conversion that I missed?
You can do it efficiently if you go via a numpy array:
import numpy
arr = numpy.array(im)
return gtk.gdk.pixbuf_new_from_array(arr, gtk.gdk.COLORSPACE_RGB, 8)
If you're using PyGI and GTK+3, here's an alternative which also removes the need for a dependency on numpy:
import array
from gi.repository import GdkPixbuf
def image2pixbuf(self,im):
arr = array.array('B', im.tostring())
width, height = im.size
return GdkPixbuf.Pixbuf.new_from_data(arr, GdkPixbuf.Colorspace.RGB,
True, 8, width, height, width * 4)
I'm not able to use gtk 3.14 (this version has the method new_from_bytes) [1], so did this workaroud like yours in order to get it working:
from gi.repository import GdkPixbuf
import cv2
def image2pixbuf(im):
# convert image from BRG to RGB (pnm uses RGB)
im2 = cv2.cvtColor(im, cv2.COLOR_BGR2RGB)
# get image dimensions (depth is not used)
height, width, depth = im2.shape
pixl = GdkPixbuf.PixbufLoader.new_with_type('pnm')
# P6 is the magic number of PNM format,
# and 255 is the max color allowed, see [2]
pixl.write("P6 %d %d 255 " % (width, height) + im2.tostring())
pix = pixl.get_pixbuf()
pixl.close()
return pix
References:
- https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=732297
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netpbm_format