On Wednesday 20 July 2005 11:59 pm, 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.
On the fly, or just during development? In any case, you should be aware of the Skencil vector graphic program which is written in Python (with some C extensions), and which is also, of course, a python vector-graphics library. Unfortunately, getting it to work in a server environment might not be too pretty (requires GTK, etc, even if you don't actually use it). I tried to make a stripped down version that didn't require the desktop stuff, but it hasn't worked out so well yet. > Alternately, is there a good source of PIL font files (.pil files) > somewhere? I believe there is a utility for converting other types of fonts, you might have to go through a couple of different conversions from the font files you have. > 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. While bitmap font files are not copyrightable, there are license issues with most of the "nicer" fonts you are probably talking about. That complicates bundling them with the software. The PIL site does actually have some additional fonts for download, though, IIRC. -- Terry Hancock ( hancock at anansispaceworks.com ) Anansi Spaceworks http://www.anansispaceworks.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
