What binaries are we talking about? I'm pretty sure the effbot.org binaries have _imagingft in them, at least:
$ unzip -v PIL-1.1.7.win32-py2.6.exe ... 324608 Defl:N 170249 48% 11-02-09 13:42 5462e136 PLATLIB/PIL/_imaging.pyd 101376 Defl:N 51319 49% 11-02-09 13:42 cdd53308 PLATLIB/PIL/_imagingcms.pyd 396288 Defl:N 225835 43% 11-02-09 13:42 bab256eb PLATLIB/PIL/_imagingft.pyd 15872 Defl:N 6022 62% 11-02-09 13:42 e9836738 PLATLIB/PIL/_imagingmath.pyd 8704 Defl:N 4165 52% 11-02-09 13:42 899b8d80 PLATLIB/PIL/_imagingtk.pyd ... (I think there's a sanity test for this in the upload tools, but I'm not 100% sure about that) No Windows box within reach right now, so I cannot check if there's some other problem with the ft module </F> On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Oliver Tonnhofer <o...@bogosoft.com> wrote: > > On 05.05.2010, at 06:12, Laura & Edward Cannon wrote: > >> I am running python 2.6.4 (32 bit) on windows 7 Home Premium (64 bit). >> I installed PIL 1.1.7 a few months ago from the official installer. I >> sat down today and tried to load a font using the ImageFont.truetype >> function. I get the following error. >> ImportError: The _imagingft C module is not installed >> I have had no other errors, and have used the other modules >> extensively with this install. Any ideas as to what the problem might >> be? > > The Windows binaries for 1.1.7 where not compiled with FreeType support. You > need to downgrade to 1.1.6 or build you own packages. > > Regards, > Oliver > > _______________________________________________ > 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