On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 11:23:46 +0100, Daren Russell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >phil hunt wrote: >> I am trying to generate some images (gifs or pngs) with text in >> them. I can use the Python Imaging Library, but it only has access >> to the default, rather crappy, font. >> >> Ideally I'd like to use one of the nicer fonts that come with my X >> Windows installation. Using Tkinter I can draw these fonts on the >> screen; is there any way to get these fonts into a bitmapped image? >> For example, can I draw some text on a canvas and then "grab" that >> canvas as a bitmap into PIL, and then save it as a file? >> >> Alternately, is there a good source of PIL font files (.pil files) >> somewhere? >> >> If the writers of the Python Imaging Library are reading this, may I >> suggest that they add more fonts to it. Yes, that would increase >> the size, but these days disk space is cheap and programmer time >> expensive. >> > >I've just been playing around with this. You can use truetype fonts with: > >font = ImageFont.truetype("/path/to/font.ttf", 12)
Thanks! it's working now! -- Email: zen19725 at zen dot co dot uk -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list