Hi Laszlo , thanks for the reply -- it's interesting to see how often public questions get answered privately .... [ :-( ]
Have you heard about pyx ? http://pyx.sourceforge.net If you don't need pixels, this is maybe what you want .... don't know it if needs Latex though .... -Sebastian On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 12:37 PM, Laszlo Nagy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sebastian Haase wrote: >> >> Hi Laszlo , >> (sorry I can not help you) >> just curious, what would you be using instead of PIL ? >> > > reportlab or pycairo Not decided yet. My program prints out small images on > a printer, I do not really need to render an raster image, PDF would also be > fine. >> >> And, when did Fredrik Lundh tell you this ? >> > > He replied to my first post in private. It was about a month ago. > > I also got a private response from somebody called Nicolas Pinault with > this: > >> I have not found a solution to your problem. I think the problem is in >> _imagingft service. >> In ImageFont.py module, FreeTypeFont class, getmask2 method : >> Replace >> im = fill("L", size, 0) >> by >> im = fill("L", size, 128) >> >> Run your testcase. You can see that the text is located at the top of the >> rendered window. >> I guess that it should be located at the bottom of the rendered window >> leaving space for the missing upper part of the font. >> Unfortunately _imagingft service in not written in Python. So the >> investigation is not as easy as with modules written in Python. > > I think he is right. Unfortunately, I do not know C well enough to fix/debug > the problem. > > Thanks, > > Laszlo > > _______________________________________________ Image-SIG maillist - Image-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/image-sig
