On Friday 18 September 2009 08:54, Laszlo Nagy wrote: > I need to render antialiased PNG images using TTF font files and UTF-8 > text. It needs to be available at least on Linux and Windows. This is > what I have tried:
[...] > #4. pygame - documentation looks great, it is cross platform. But the > first example program I had tried has been terminated, printing out > memory dump and complaining about double freeing some memory location. I'm surprised this doesn't work. I've seen games that are distributed with TrueType fonts, so I would expect them to work, or people would probably say something. :-) > What other options do we have? PyQt4 can render Unicode text to all sorts of paint devices, and it supports TrueType fonts, too. You basically do all the painting via a single API: http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/static/Docs/PyQt4/html/qpainter.html Here's a quick example of how it could be done: http://www.diotavelli.net/PyQtWiki/Paint%20on%20an%20image All the relevant stuff happens in the updateImage() method. David -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
