Re: Generating images with text in them

2005-07-22 Thread Mike Meyer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (phil hunt) writes: > On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 02:44:03 -0500, Terry Hancock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>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 copyrig

Re: Generating images with text in them

2005-07-21 Thread Terry Hancock
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 Li

Re: Generating images with text in them

2005-07-21 Thread Terry Hancock
On Thursday 21 July 2005 05:23 am, Daren Russell wrote: > I've just been playing around with this. You can use truetype fonts with: > > font = ImageFont.truetype("/path/to/font.ttf", 12) > > from version 1.1.4 > > http://www.pythonware.com/library/pil/handbook/imagefont.htm for more Wow, I did

Re: Generating images with text in them

2005-07-21 Thread phil hunt
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 cra

Re: Generating images with text in them

2005-07-21 Thread phil hunt
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

Re: Generating images with text in them

2005-07-21 Thread John Abel
Have you downloaded the pilfonts.zip from effbot.org? J 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

Re: Generating images with text in them

2005-07-21 Thread Daren Russell
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 Tk

Re: Generating images with text in them

2005-07-21 Thread Terry Hancock
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 a