On Thursday 21 July 2005 11:29 am, phil hunt wrote: > 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.
There are several free vector graphics programs. It would be fairly trivial to hack a Skencil file to change text in it. Could do the same with an SVG file from Inkscape. This would be a way to generate your graphics. I wrote a build utility for image resources based on Skencil which creates images as part of your build process. See: http://buildimage.narya.net That might be useful to you. > I'm runnnig a desktop environment. For example Tkinter works fine. Then Skencil is no problem if you want to use that. > >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. *Bitmap* fonts are not copyrightable.* TrueType and Type 1 fonts are outline fonts and are copyrightable just like programs (indeed they technically are a kind of limited-domain program due to the coding of "hints"). I see that the new ability to use True Type fonts solved your problem, so I'll just leave it at that. Glad you found a solution. Cheers, Terry *In the US anyway -- they are regarded as too simple. This might not be true in other countries, it's clearly a judgement call. -- Terry Hancock ( hancock at anansispaceworks.com ) Anansi Spaceworks http://www.anansispaceworks.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
