Have you downloaded the pilfonts.zip from effbot.org? J
phil hunt wrote: >I am trying to generate some images (gifs or pngs) with text in >them. I can use the Python Imaging Library, but it only has access >to the default, rather crappy, font. > >Ideally I'd like to use one of the nicer fonts that come with my X >Windows installation. Using Tkinter I can draw these fonts on the >screen; is there any way to get these fonts into a bitmapped image? >For example, can I draw some text on a canvas and then "grab" that >canvas as a bitmap into PIL, and then save it as a file? > >Alternately, is there a good source of PIL font files (.pil files) >somewhere? > >If the writers of the Python Imaging Library are reading this, may I >suggest that they add more fonts to it. Yes, that would increase >the size, but these days disk space is cheap and programmer time >expensive. > > > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list