PIL 1.0 on win32?

[Arpad Kiss]

Fredrik Lundh wrote:
> Arpad Kiss wrote:
> > I have a PIL based Zope product I have been developing on a Linux box. I
> > just wanted to test it on a Windows NT(sp5), but it doesn't work.:-(
> > At first it didn't recognize my fonts, because the readline method on
win32
> > returns 10+13 at the end of the lines and in ImageFont.py only \n is
> > checked.
>
> PIL opens the font files in binary mode, so this
> shouldn't be a problem.  you probably messed
> something up when you transferred the font
> files to the PC...

I have created a .tar.gz then extracted it with WinZip.

>
> > After I  solved it I got an error message(memory error in line 151 of
> > ImageDraw.py) when I wanted to draw some text.
> > When I commented out the text drawing code in my program, then I got
back a
> > picture, but it is mirrored!
>
> this sounds really weird -- but at least the
> memory error might be due to bogus font data...

Ok. I will try to replace my fonts.

>
> what win32 build do you use?  can you post some
> code?

Python1.5.2 and pil-win32-991101.zip
I will write a minimal example.

>
> > Of course on linux box my program works fine.
> > I just want know who else use PIL 1.0 on win32 and what experiences they
> > have. Should this text drawing function work? Is it my fault?
>
> fwiw, PIL is being developed on win32...

Maybe a minimal example(without Zope) can help me, if cannot then I'll post
it.
Thanks,
Arpad