[Image-SIG] Re: draw.text problem

[Chris Barker]

Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> freetype isn't exactly the most stable and well-documented API you can
> find, so I'm probably using and old API which they have broken since then.
> 
> I'll take a look when I find the time (patches are welcome, if some freetype
> expert has more time to spare than I have...)

This reminds me of a question that I've been meaning to ask:

Have you considered using Antigrain Graphics as the drawing engine for 
PIL? It produces very nice anti-aliased graphics and text. There have 
been numerous discussions on various mailing lists about how nice it 
would be to have a general purpose Python wrapper for AGG. It's being 
used in SciPy/Chaco and matplotlib, but they've only wrapped up the 
specific functionality that they need. Maybe PIL would be a good place 
to put it.

http://www.antigrain.com/

-Chris


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