Having asked this question with no reply on comp.lang.python and the
image-sig list I now turn to the Cygwin community. I'd really appreciate
Cc's to my email address as I am not a subscriber to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Is anyone aware of (a fix for) problems I'm having getting the Python
Imaging Library (PIL) 1.1.5 to create bitmaps using TrueType and
openType fonts from the /c/WINDOWS/Fonts directory? When I create an
image using ImageFont.load() on the standard PIL font files everything
seems fine, but when I use ImageFont.truetype(<font-file>, <size>) no
text is drawn.
setup.py reports from debug print statements that it's finding
freetype21 when I build PIL from source under Cygwin.
The same code (using Fredrik Lundh's pre-built binary) on Windows runs
correctly and produces correct images from Windows fonts.
Cygwin runs Python 2.4.1, Windows runs 2.4. Any comments that shed light
on this mystery will be gratefully received.
regards
Steve
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