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+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+"""
+jpegtran plugin
+
+Almost like jpegoptim except it uses jpegtran. jpegtran allows to make
+progressive JPEG. Unfortunately, it only does lossless compression. If
+you want both, you need to combine this plugin with jpegoptim one.
+"""
+
+from hyde.plugin import CLTransformer
+from hyde.fs import File
+
+class JPEGTranPlugin(CLTransformer):
+    """
+    The plugin class for JPEGTran
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, site):
+        super(JPEGTranPlugin, self).__init__(site)
+
+    @property
+    def plugin_name(self):
+        """
+        The name of the plugin.
+        """
+        return "jpegtran"
+
+    def option_prefix(self, option):
+        return "-"
+
+    def binary_resource_complete(self, resource):
+        """
+        If the site is in development mode, just return.
+        Otherwise, run jpegtran to compress the jpg file.
+        """
+
+        try:
+            mode = self.site.config.mode
+        except AttributeError:
+            mode = "production"
+
+        if not resource.source_file.kind == 'jpg':
+            return
+
+        if mode.startswith('dev'):
+            self.logger.debug("Skipping jpegtran in development mode.")
+            return
+
+        supported = [
+            "optimize",
+            "progressive",
+            "restart",
+            "arithmetic",
+            "perfect",
+            "copy",
+        ]
+        source = File(self.site.config.deploy_root_path.child(
+                resource.relative_deploy_path))
+        target = File.make_temp('')
+        jpegtran = self.app
+        args = [unicode(jpegtran)]
+        args.extend(self.process_args(supported))
+        args.extend(["-outfile", unicode(target), unicode(source)])
+        self.call_app(args)
+        target.copy_to(source)
+        target.delete()