[PIL] quake like multicoloured text

[Gabriel Genellina]

En Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:24:08 -0300, Durand <durand1 at gmail.com> escribió:

> I'm wondering how I could render text with PIL in which different
> parts of the text are different characters. This is for a game stats
> script where names are written like:
> ^1Red ^2Green ^3Yellow, etc.
> The problem is that I currently use text in the ImageDraw module but
> the only way I can think of rendering text is by rendering each bit of
> text in a separate colour.
>
> Example:
>
> draw.text((0,0),"Red", fill="red")
> draw.text((30,0),"Green", fill="green")
> draw.text((60,0),"Yellow", fill="green")
>
> except that I'm not sure how much spacing there is between each
> coloured bit of text(30px is assumed in the example)...Would there be
> an alternate method of doing this?

You could use the draw.textsize method to measure how much space will take  
each part...

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Gabriel Genellina