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]

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.

lok at pygame and pil

chris

 

[News M Claveau /Hamster-P]

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

 

[Simon Burton]

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]

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.

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

Anthony

 

[Eric Brunel]

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.

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

 

[Guest]

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.

Perhaps python gdmodule will do?
http://newcenturycomputers.net/projects/gdmodule.html