[Image-SIG] Re: store ttf outside filesystem

[Fredrik Lundh]

Gennady Kovalev wrote:

> I'm try to generate images with text in Zope+CMF, so we write graphic tool
for
> CMF. I want to store fonts in ZODB. So PIL font worked propertly, but TTF
> not.
>
> How i can tell FreeTypeFont to use not file name, but file handler, or
> StringIO?

you cannot, unless you add that functionality to the PIL FreeType bindings
(assuming
freetype supports memory buffers, that is).

to use existing code, you'll have to copy each font to a temporary file
during drawing.

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