TTF fonts rendered in Python

[vald]

I wonder if there is any module for rendering True
Type Fonts in Python ? I need to create a GIF files
with nice antialiased text and I'm unable to find
any module with such functionality.

Sincerely,
K.

[Chris Liechti]

Re: TTF fonts rendered in Python

vald <vald@valis.amb er.eu.org> wrote in
news:mailman.10 63224795.24414. python-list@python.org :
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>
> I wonder if there is any module for rendering True
> Type Fonts in Python ? I need to create a GIF files
> with nice antialiased text and I'm unable to find
> any module with such functionality.[/color]

lok at pygame and pil

chris

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[News M Claveau /Hamster-P]

Re: TTF fonts rendered in Python


PIL ? http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/

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[Simon Burton]

Re: TTF fonts rendered in Python


One idea:
pygame can render with TTF fonts,
it can also save surfaces in tga format.
Then use PIL to convert to gif. The only
question is, can pygame do this without displaying
a window etc.

Simon Burton.

[Anthony Baxter]

Re: TTF fonts rendered in Python

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>>> Simon Burton wrote[/color][/color]
>
> One idea:
> pygame can render with TTF fonts,
> it can also save surfaces in tga format.
> Then use PIL to convert to gif. The only
> question is, can pygame do this without displaying
> a window etc.[/color]

Absolutely - I have code here that generates animated gifs doing
just this sort of thing.

Anthony
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[Eric Brunel]

Re: TTF fonts rendered in Python

vald wrote:[color=blue]
> I wonder if there is any module for rendering True
> Type Fonts in Python ? I need to create a GIF files
> with nice antialiased text and I'm unable to find
> any module with such functionality.
>
> Sincerely,
> K.
>[/color]

If you want something a bit lighter than PyGame or PIL, there's also gd with
gdmodule:

http://newcenturycomputers.net/projects/gdmodule.html

http://www.boutell.com/gd/

HTH
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[дамјан г.]

Re: TTF fonts rendered in Python


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>
> One idea:
> pygame can render with TTF fonts,
> it can also save surfaces in tga format.
> Then use PIL to convert to gif. The only
> question is, can pygame do this without displaying
> a window etc.
>
> Simon Burton.[/color]

Perhaps python gdmodule will do?

http://newcenturycomputers.net/projects/gdmodule.html

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