where is freesansbold.ttf on your system? It should be installed with pygame.
cheers,
On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 8:19 AM, Peter Chant <p...@petezilla.co.uk> wrote:
> Chaps,
>
> I have the following code:
>
> if pygame.font:
> font = pygame.font.Font(None, 36)
> #font = pygame.font.Font('liberationserif',36)
> text = font.render("Esc to quit.", 1, (10, 10, 10))
> textpos = text.get_rect()
> textpos.centerx = background.get_rect().centerx
> background.blit(text, textpos)
>
> but I get the error:
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "g6.py", line 77, in <module>
> font = pygame.font.Font(None, 36)
> RuntimeError: default font not found 'freesansbold.ttf'
> bash-3.1$
>
> Now swapping the comments on the font= lines to use liberationserif which
> definitely is on my system I get a similar fault. Any suggestions on a
> remedy? Running on linux (Slack 12.2) if that makes a difference.
>
> Pete
>
> --
> Peter Chant
> http://www.petezilla.co.uk
>
