[Image-SIG] Re: write text on a picture (PIL fonts)

[Fredrik Lundh]

kevin wrote:

> I think his major concern is copyright... not all the fonts in all those
> packages are "free", and unless you own the right to use them in some
> other format it is not legal for you to use them in PIL.

three concerns, in fact:

- copyright issues

- server disk space

- now that 1.1.4 supports truetype fonts (using the freetype
  renderer), there should be less need for prebuilt raster fonts

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