Index: aafigure-0.5/aafigure/PILhelper.py
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--- aafigure-0.5.orig/aafigure/PILhelper.py	2010-03-25 12:46:08.000000000 +0100
+++ aafigure-0.5/aafigure/PILhelper.py	2010-03-25 12:48:25.000000000 +0100
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
         font = ImageFont.truetype(name, size)
     except IOError:
         # PIL upto 1.1.7b1 only tries absolute paths for win32
-        if sys.platform.startswith('linux'):
+        if os.name == 'posix':
             font_path = _find_file(name, '/usr/share/fonts')
             if font_path:
                 try: