I made a foray with PIL a couple days ago to determine the feasibility of generating graphics with arbitrary "Elvish" text, with a web interface, on demand. I used the definitive true type font to generate a graphic of the word "ainalda", with some success. However, it didn't print the diacritics.
The Elvish fonts contain characters that print text before the cursor. In Elvish, you type out a consonant character, then you can apply modifier glyphs to the previous character, like two dots on bottom, a bar on top, or a hook attached to the end. This works fine in most applications, including web browsers. For some reason, PIL interprets these modifier characters as a blank space. Does anybody out there in the blue nowhere have some ideas that might help? I would consider getting the C source and piddling with it, but I'd rather not. If I do pursue the C code, where would I start? Are there alternate libraries? Could I find another tool that would convert the font to make it work with PIL? Graciously, Kris Kowal. -- (watch the reply to) _______________________________________________ Image-SIG maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/image-sig
