What platform is this? If you start a Python interpreter and write: >>> import Image >>> Image.core
what does it output? </F> On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 10:06 AM, ariel goldstien <ariel.goldst...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi. > My name is Ariel Goldstien I work at The Hebrew university laboratory. > I am trying to write a Hebrew string to a BMP. and I keep getting "The > _imaging C module is not installed" despite the fact that I have managed to > import _imaging. > this is the code: > import Image > import ImageDraw > import ImageFont > import _imaging > > a=u'1אריאל' #u'..' converts to Unicode > font = ImageFont.truetype('c:/mriam.ttf',24) #standard Hebrew font, this > line throws the error > im=Image.new('RGB',(200,200),(100,100,100)) > d=ImageDraw.Draw(im) > d.text((0,0),a) > im.show() > I have spent more than 3 dayes trying to figure it out. any help would be > very appriciated > _______________________________________________ > Image-SIG maillist - image-...@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/image-sig > > _______________________________________________ Image-SIG maillist - Image-SIG@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/image-sig