I don't have much experience with this topic, but you could try looking at the selftest.py script that comes with PIL (you probably ran it during your install) as I recall it prints some useful information out, so it must be able to determine information about the install. Edward
On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 10:11 AM, Dinu Gherman <gher...@darwin.in-berlin.de> wrote: > 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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Image-SIG maillist - Image-SIG@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/image-sig > _______________________________________________ Image-SIG maillist - Image-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/image-sig
