Obtaining PIL instead of Pillow for Python 2.7 64-bit on Windows

Question

Pillow for Python seems to be completely broken. Every image produces an IOError: cannot identify image file. Using Python 2.6 (where I had PIL installed) works great. Does anyone know where to get hold of PIL-1.1.7.win-amd64-py2.7.exe now that http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/ has moved on to only offering Pillow?

EDIT: Please note that PIL 1.1.7 on Python 2.7 using Windows 64-bit is confirmed working when opening the same files, we just cannot find the installer.

Solution 1

Here you can find PIL-1.1.7.win-amd64-py2.7.exe

Solution 2

This blog by Christian explains process of compiling PIL for 64 bit Python in Windows 7 64-bit with Visual Studio 2010. At end of the blog, zip file containing compiled files for PIL and dependencies is also provided

Comments

[Metalshark]

Pillow is broken on 64 bit Windows (not on 32 bit) whereas PIL works beautifully. I need to use 64 bit to deal with RAM limits. Thanks though. I have tried the version from the site mentioned and using pip/easy_install with a compile chain. Same issue.

[user984003]

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