1 Using image instances from the PIL
3 You can use image instances from the [Python Image Library
4 http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil] to create bitmaps. You then have an
5 easy access to all the bitmap formats available in PIL, you may also use PIL
6 features to create/load/modify bitmaps etc. ... In order to create an image
7 pixel by pixel, the PIL is not necessary (by the way, it is slow to use
10 !! Using PIL image instances you can also pass indexed images
11 to PyX's `bitmap` class.