.......
the reportlab graphics renderPM(_renderPM) module does most things
with T1 and TTF and works linux/win32. We use freetype2 internally to
extract the curves from ttf and then draw them with libart_lgpl which
does anti-aliasing.
I just tried reportlab and RenderPM. I got the same error others got: it
looks impossible to use it for creating raster images. Details here:
http://osdir.com/ml/python.reportlab.user/2005-06/msg00015.html
I think something similar could be done directly with PIL and the
antigrain extension.
PIL would be ideal because it is lightweight and works on Windows and
Linux too. But it is buggy. It doesn't render some east european
(iso8859-2) characters, which we deperately need. Some TTF fonts are
rendered incorrecly in PIL. Simply it doesn't work.
I'm surprised when you say that libfreetype isn't available on
windows. It's a fairly hard road, but it can be travelled; certainly
we built the parts of freetype that we needed into our extension. That
required only a static library from freetype. I haven't needed to do
this on windows since 2.1.5 so perhaps it's harder now.
I'll try anything that might work. In fact I have already seen articles
about windows + libfreetype on the internet, but I could not find
statically linked libraries built against Python 2.6. If you could send
me a few hints where to start, I would greatly appreciate it. The only
one requirement that I do not want to start writting C code and glue
together libraries by hand. Not because I'm lazy but because I would
like to have something that can be installed easily on new windows
systems, and have no dependency problems "out of the box".
Thank you for your efforts.
Laszlo
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