Generating images with text in them

[phil hunt]

On Thu, 21 Jul 2005 11:23:46 +0100, Daren Russell <darenr at end-design.co.uk> wrote:
>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. 
>> 
>> 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?
>> 
>> 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.
>> 
>
>I've just been playing around with this.  You can use truetype fonts with:
>
>font = ImageFont.truetype("/path/to/font.ttf", 12)

Thanks! it's working now!

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