Hi, I'm trying to generate bitmap files dynamically using Python, PIL and TrueType fonts. When deploying my code on a WebFaction.com box with a preinstalled PIL I observe nasty differences (most visible in the string widths) in the text being rendered compared to my development box, a MacBook with OS X 10.6 with my own Python/PIL installation (both with Python 2.7.3 and PIL 1.1.7).
I've contacted the WebFaction support team, speculating about differ- ences in the JPEG, PNG and/or Freetype libraries used. It's not solved, but now I think Freetype might be the best guess since the output makes no difference between PNG and JPEG. WebFaction told me to install a custom PIL following their recipes here, but that didn't help (in fact the differences compared with my Mac even increased): http://community.webfaction.com/questions/7340/how-to-install-pil-with-truetype-support In order to test this I've written a simple script and put it on Gist here (with two small PNG files attached for an Arial TTF), so people can tweak it if they like: https://gist.github.com/3248606 While I haven't given up hope on the WebFaction support I have two questions for this list: 1. I wonder if I can expect the exact same rendering on different platforms with PIL and TrueType at all? 2. Is there some way to tell quickly (ideally at run time) which li- braries (and versions) went into building PIL and, maybe, where they reside in the system? Any help is highly appreciated. Regards, Dinu
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