Hi there. Semi-newbie question... I spent the day yesterday getting PIL to run on my OSX 10.3.9 with python 2.4. Eventually I figured out that I needed to build the _imagingft.so plugin from the freetype2 library, and then the jpeg plugins too. (Thank goodness for http://wiki.python.org/moin/MacPython/UniversalLibrariesAndExtensions !)
After several builds and re-installations I eventually succeeded in procedurally rendering text through the ImageFont class. Joy followed. But the joy quickly waned when I tried to render text using one of my specially purchased display fonts. No matter what I tried the top part of the text was clipped. I toyed with altering the size in the ImageFont core code, but of course that didn't work. It seems the problem is the way _imagingft evaluates the metrics of this particular font. The reason I spent the day yesterday jumping through hoops to get this to work was to be able to procedurally render text using this particular font, only to find out that I can't. I'm hoping that someone will be able to help steer me towards a solution. I looked through the freetype2 source code for a few minutes and decided I wouldn't even know where to begin solving the problem there. Is there a workaround in PIL, or am I just out of luck until a deeper fix is made to the plugin? Thank you in advance, Aleksi _______________________________________________ Image-SIG maillist - Image-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/image-sig
