On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 02:44:03 -0500, Terry Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >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?
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. I may look that up, if I don't get joy with PIL or Tkinter. >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. I'm runnnig a desktop environment. For example Tkinter works fine. >> 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. I'm aware there's a utility, and I wish to avoid the hassle of "go[ing] 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. Oh? I can understand them being copyrighted; but if they are not copywritable, what licnese issues are there? In any case, there presumably are not license issues with the fonts that come with a standard GNU/Linux distribution such as SuSE 9.1, which is what I am using. > That >complicates bundling them with the software. The PIL site does >actually have some additional fonts for download, though, IIRC. Do yuo have a URL? -- Email: zen19725 at zen dot co dot uk -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
