[Image-SIG] weird windows 7 error with ImageFont

[Fredrik Lundh]

What binaries are we talking about?  I'm pretty sure the effbot.org
binaries have _imagingft in them, at least:

$ unzip -v PIL-1.1.7.win32-py2.6.exe
  ...
  324608  Defl:N   170249  48%  11-02-09 13:42  5462e136
PLATLIB/PIL/_imaging.pyd
  101376  Defl:N    51319  49%  11-02-09 13:42  cdd53308
PLATLIB/PIL/_imagingcms.pyd
  396288  Defl:N   225835  43%  11-02-09 13:42  bab256eb
PLATLIB/PIL/_imagingft.pyd
   15872  Defl:N     6022  62%  11-02-09 13:42  e9836738
PLATLIB/PIL/_imagingmath.pyd
    8704  Defl:N     4165  52%  11-02-09 13:42  899b8d80
PLATLIB/PIL/_imagingtk.pyd
  ...

(I think there's a sanity test for this in the upload tools, but I'm
not 100% sure about that)

No Windows box within reach right now, so I cannot check if there's
some other problem with the ft module

</F>

On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Oliver Tonnhofer <olt at bogosoft.com> wrote:
>
> On 05.05.2010, at 06:12, Laura & Edward Cannon wrote:
>
>> I am running python 2.6.4 (32 bit) on windows 7 Home Premium (64 bit).
>> I installed PIL 1.1.7 a few months ago from the official installer. I
>> sat down today and tried to load a font using the ImageFont.truetype
>> function. I get the following error.
>> ImportError: The _imagingft C module is not installed
>> I have had no other errors, and have used the other modules
>> extensively with this install. Any ideas as to what the problem might
>> be?
>
> The Windows binaries for 1.1.7 where not compiled with FreeType support. You
> need to downgrade to 1.1.6 or build you own packages.
>
> Regards,
> Oliver
>
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