[Windows] PIL 1.1.7 does not support truetype fonts

[Nadia Alramli]

When applying the polaroid library actionlist on one of the input images (png of gif) I got the following error:
I'm using PIL 1.1.7 on windows

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "E:\phatch\phatch\core\api.py", line 650, in apply_action_to_photo

    photo = action.apply(photo, read_only_settings, cache)

  File "E:\phatch\phatch\core\models.py", line 106, in apply

    photo.get_layer().apply_pil(self.pil, **values)

  File "E:\phatch\phatch\core\pil.py", line 735, in apply_pil

    self.image = function(self.image, *arg, **keyw)

  File "E:\phatch\phatch\actions\text.py", line 46, in draw_text

    font = ImageFont.truetype(font, size)

  File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\PIL\ImageFont.py", line 218, in truetype

    return FreeTypeFont(filename, size, index, encoding)

  File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\PIL\ImageFont.py", line 134, in __init__

    self.font = core.getfont(file, size, index, encoding)

  File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\PIL\ImageFont.py", line 34, in __getattr__

    raise ImportError("The _imagingft C module is not installed")

ImportError: The _imagingft C module is not installed

[Stani (stani)]

I can't reproduce this with PIL 1.1.7

[Nadia Alramli (nadiana)]

The text action in the acceptance test on windows (pil 1.1.7) is failing with the same error as well.

[Stani (stani)]

My mistake with Pil 1.1.6

[Stani (stani)]

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2182787/drawing-hebrew-text-to-and-image-using-image-module-python

[Stani (stani)]

Please report this upstream:
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/image-sig

[Stani (stani)]

Strange, I can't reproduce this with PIL 1.1.7 for python 2.5 on Windows. Are you sure you uninstalled PIL 1.1.6 cleanly?

[Stani (stani)]

@Nadia
Please clear all your user settings and install the dependencies from http://photobatch.stani.be/download/package/phatch-dependencies-win32-py25.zip

and see if you still have this issue.

[Stani (stani)]

Hey Robin,
Can you look at it? The PIL1.1.7 build for py25 works fine, so there should be a bug in the py26 build.

This error does not happen on Windows 2000, but it happens on Windows 7.

[Andreas Bittel (andreas-bittel)]

Hello all,

I have also a problem with "ImportError: The _imagingft C module is not installed". I installed python 2.6.4 and the corresponding
PIL-1.1.7.win32-py2.6.exe. My script is the following:

from PIL import Image, ImageDraw, ImageFont

im =Image.new("RGB",(400,400),(128,0,0))

draw = ImageDraw.Draw(im)
draw.line((0, 0) + im.size, fill=(128,128,128))
draw.line((0, im.size[1], im.size[0], 0), fill=128)

# use a bitmap font
font = ImageFont.truetype("arial.ttf",15)
#font =ImageFont.load("courB12.pil")

draw.text((10,20), "Test", font=font)
del draw

# write to stdout
im.save("c:\Test.bmp", "bmp")

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "\\cdn-srv8\CDN_userbase$\andreas.bittel\Eigene Dateien\Downloads\Image_Test.py", line 11, in <module>
    font = ImageFont.truetype("arial.ttf",15)
  File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\PIL\ImageFont.py", line 218, in truetype
    return FreeTypeFont(filename, size, index, encoding)
  File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\PIL\ImageFont.py", line 134, in __init__
    self.font = core.getfont(file, size, index, encoding)
  File "C:\Python26\lib\site-packages\PIL\ImageFont.py", line 34, in __getattr__
    raise ImportError("The _imagingft C module is not installed")
ImportError: The _imagingft C module is not installed

What do I have to do to use the text output in an image?

[Stani (stani)]

@Andreas
Use Python 2.5 (this problem is only in the PIL 1.1.7 installer for python 2.6) or report the issue on the Image-sig mailing list:
http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/image-sig