Pillow seems to break TrueType loading
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last edited by ccc@omz, It is awesome to have Pillow in build 160033!! Congratulations on this major step forward!
from PIL import ImageFont # each of the remaining lines fail font = ImageFont.truetype('<System>', 15) font = ImageFont.truetype("Arial", 15) font = ImageFont.truetype('Helvetica', 20)
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last edited byWas just about to post this issue.
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last edited byPosted anyway, because I wanted to post the error it was throwing and I didn't want to delete my already-written post.
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last edited byI forgot that I had patched PIL to make that work, should be easy to use the same technique in Pillow.
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last edited byGreat! looking forward to it.
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last edited byQuick workaround:
import _font_cache font_name = 'Helvetica' font = ImageFont.truetype(_font_cache.get_font_path(font_name))
