PIL cutting off letters

[peter]

On 16 Jun, 17:20, Pierre Hanser <han... at club-internet.fr> wrote:
> Matt Haggard a écrit :
>
> > I'm using PIL (Python Imaging Library) to generate button images.
> > They consist of a left end image, a middle, repeating image and a
> > right side image.... anyway, that's not important
>
> > I'm using a TTF font for the text of the button (Verdana.TTF) and it
> > keeps cutting the bottom part of the the g's q's and y's off.
>
> hello
>
> may be the problem is in your code, but it is also possibly
> in PIL which clips caracters at the top and bottom line;
> that's not the typographic names, but these are *font* values,
> not characters ones.
> There are fonts with caracters far higher than these
> conventionnal lines (try Liorah.ttf or any swashed font for
> exemple)!
> I don't remember for sure but may be there is the same problem
> horizontally.
> --
>         Pierre

I've had this problem horizontally, and solved it by the high tech
method of adding a leading and trailing space!!!

Peter