[Image-SIG] fonts for use with PIL

Fredrik Lundh fredrik@pythonware.com
Thu, 6 Jun 2002 18:36:49 +0200


Yo Keller wrote:

>   File "d:\Python21\lib\PIL\ImageFont.py", line 136, in load_path
>     raise IOError, "cannot find font file"
> I installed PIL from the windows install kit (from Pythonware). I have never
> seen any BDF directory.

you can get standard fonts from effbot.org:

    http://effbot.org/pil/index.htm

(get the pilfonts.zip package)

use the ImageFont module to load font objects from
disk.  see the ImageFont and pilfont manual pages for
more information.

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