Hi All,
I tried to put a text on a transparent image. Here is a test:
import Image
import ImageDraw
import ImageFont
img = Image.new('RGBA',(100,20),(255,0,0,0))
drawer = ImageDraw.Draw(img)
fnt = ImageFont.truetype("Vera.ttf",20) #
http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/ttf-bitstream-vera/1.10/
drawer.text((0,0),"ABCDE",font=fnt,fill="#00ff00")
img.save("test.png") # Result image
I'm working on a rendering engine but I created this example to show the
problem. The rendering engine should be able to create an image with
transparent parts, and one should be able to put the rendered image on
top of any other image.
The problem itself: font edges are interpolated between the background and foreground color. You can see it on the resulting image. If you open the created "test.png" file in GIMP and use the color picker tool then you can see values like:
(203,52,0,52) (215,40,0,40)I think that this is bad. The background was fully transparent. If you put a green object on a fully transparent thing, you should never see any red in it. I believe that the result should be something like
(0,52,0,52) (0,40,0,40)In other words, when antialiasing a text, the background pixel's color should be weighted with its transparency. In my example, the background pixel is fully red but should have zero weight.
Workarounds?Working with black or white initial background is not a workaround, because PIL will darken/lighten the pixels. I used red+green just to make the problem more visible. A correct workaround is to use the actual target background that will finally be used, but it is not a good workaround. This is obvious: I want to render the result image once, then put it on different target images. Rendering the result image each time I need to put it on a target would be very slow.
Can you please confirm if this is a bug in PIL? Comments welcome. Best, Laszlo
<<inline: test.png>>
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