Generating images with text in them

[John Abel]

Have you downloaded the pilfonts.zip from effbot.org?

J

phil hunt wrote:

>I am trying to generate some images (gifs or pngs) with text in 
>them. I can use the Python Imaging Library, but it only has access 
>to the default, rather crappy, font. 
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>Ideally I'd like to use one of the nicer fonts that come with my X 
>Windows installation. Using Tkinter I can draw these fonts on the 
>screen; is there any way to get these fonts into a bitmapped image?
>For example, can I draw some text on a canvas and then "grab" that 
>canvas as a bitmap into PIL, and then save it as a file?
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>Alternately, is there a good source of PIL font files (.pil files)
>somewhere?
>
>If the writers of the Python Imaging Library are reading this, may I 
>suggest that they add more fonts to it. Yes, that would increase 
>the size, but these days disk space is cheap and programmer time
>expensive.
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