David Edwards wrote: >I'm trying to install the Imaging Library (v 1.1.5), >but it's not finding the Freetype2 component that it >says it needs and I downloaded. I put it in the same >directory as the zlib and jpeg components. > >I've tried modifying the setup.py file to tell it >exactly where to look, but it makes no difference in >the results. Trying to install what it does find gives >me this error: > >creating >/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/python2.3/site-packages >error: could not create >'/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.3/lib/python2.3/site-packages': >File exists > >Can anyone help with this? > > I cannot help you building on MAC. I do not own MAC. :-( AFAIK But possibly you cannot build truetype support on MAC at all. MAC has its own font format.
In the documentation http://www.pythonware.com/library/pil/handbook/imagedraw.htm under 'Fonts' there is a sentence: "Note that OpenType/TrueType support is optional, and may not be supported by all PIL builds." Les _______________________________________________ Image-SIG maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/image-sig
