diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/pdb/ereader/writer.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/pdb/ereader/writer.py
index 79cb11fdb9..dc32246957 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/pdb/ereader/writer.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/pdb/ereader/writer.py
@@ -11,7 +11,12 @@ __docformat__ = 'restructuredtext en'
 import struct
 import zlib
 
-import Image
+try:
+    from PIL import Image
+    Image
+except ImportError:
+    import Image
+
 import cStringIO
 
 from calibre.ebooks.pdb.formatwriter import FormatWriter
diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/pml/output.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/pml/output.py
index 8be8cc18ee..700407d058 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/pml/output.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/pml/output.py
@@ -6,7 +6,12 @@ __docformat__ = 'restructuredtext en'
 
 import os
 
-import Image
+try:
+    from PIL import Image
+    Image
+except ImportError:
+    import Image
+
 import cStringIO
 
 from calibre.customize.conversion import OutputFormatPlugin
@@ -27,24 +32,24 @@ class PMLOutput(OutputFormatPlugin):
             content = pmlmlizer.extract_content(oeb_book, opts)
             with open(os.path.join(tdir, 'index.pml'), 'wb') as out:
                 out.write(content.encode('utf-8'))
-                
+
             self.write_images(oeb_book.manifest, tdir)
 
             pmlz = ZipFile(output_path, 'w')
             pmlz.add_dir(tdir)
-        
+
     def write_images(self, manifest, out_dir):
         for item in manifest:
             if item.media_type in OEB_IMAGES:
                 im = Image.open(cStringIO.StringIO(item.data))
-                
+
                 data = cStringIO.StringIO()
                 im.save(data, 'PNG')
                 data = data.getvalue()
-                
+
                 name = os.path.splitext(os.path.basename(item.href))[0] + '.png'
                 path = os.path.join(out_dir, name)
-                
+
                 with open(path, 'wb') as out:
                     out.write(data)
 
diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/rb/writer.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/rb/writer.py
index f9057d5c61..4e697f6d36 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/rb/writer.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/rb/writer.py
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-import os.path
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 
 __license__ = 'GPL 3'
@@ -9,7 +8,12 @@ import os
 import struct
 import zlib
 
-import Image
+try:
+    from PIL import Image
+    Image
+except ImportError:
+    import Image
+
 import cStringIO
 
 from calibre.ebooks.rb.rbml import RBMLizer
@@ -121,7 +125,7 @@ class RBWriter(object):
                 name = unique_name(name, used_names)
                 used_names.append(name)
                 self.name_map[os.path.basename(item.href)] = name
-                
+
                 images.append((name, data))
 
         return images
@@ -140,4 +144,4 @@ class RBWriter(object):
         text += 'BODY=index.html\n'
 
         return text
-    
\ No newline at end of file
+
diff --git a/src/calibre/ebooks/rtf/rtfml.py b/src/calibre/ebooks/rtf/rtfml.py
index cb8e9af883..dbecd62faf 100644
--- a/src/calibre/ebooks/rtf/rtfml.py
+++ b/src/calibre/ebooks/rtf/rtfml.py
@@ -11,7 +11,12 @@ Transform OEB content into RTF markup
 import os
 import re
 
-import Image
+try:
+    from PIL import Image
+    Image
+except ImportError:
+    import Image
+
 import cStringIO
 
 from calibre.ebooks.oeb.base import XHTML, XHTML_NS, barename, namespace, \
@@ -73,7 +78,7 @@ TODO:
     * Fonts
 '''
 class RTFMLizer(object):
-    
+
     def __init__(self, ignore_tables=False):
         self.ignore_tables = ignore_tables
 
@@ -120,7 +125,7 @@ class RTFMLizer(object):
         data = cStringIO.StringIO()
         im.save(data, 'JPEG')
         data = data.getvalue()
-        
+
         raw_hex = ''
         for char in data:
             raw_hex += hex(ord(char)).replace('0x', '').rjust(2, '0')
@@ -230,5 +235,5 @@ class RTFMLizer(object):
                 text += '%s ' % elem.tail
             else:
                 text += '{\\par \\pard \\hyphpar %s}' % elem.tail
-     
+
         return text