[Image-SIG] How to specify the color of a text

[Guy K. Kloss]

On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 4:09:05 pm cafeeee wrote:
> >>> color = "blue"
> >>> draw.text((10, 10), "HELLO", fill=color, font=font)
>
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
>   File "D:\Program Files\Python25\Lib\site-packages\PIL\ImageDraw.py", line
> 256, in text ink, fill = self._getink(fill)
>   File "D:\Program Files\Python25\Lib\site-packages\PIL\ImageDraw.py", line
> 145, in _getink ink = self.palette.getcolor(ink)
>   File "D:\Program Files\Python25\Lib\site-packages\PIL\ImagePalette.py",
> line 62, in getcolor self.palette = map(int, self.palette)
> ValueError: invalid literal for int() with base 10: ''

Hmmm, the docmentation is here: 
http://www.pythonware.com/library/pil/handbook/imagedraw.htm

It's a bit ambiguous, as on the top it states that colours can also use HTML 
like names (as you did), but further down it says for the options this:

"fill: integer or tuple"

So, is it possible that your version of PIL is < 1.1.4, or that your image 
type is incompatible with (that type of) colours? Just give the other options 
a shot as mentioned in the section "Colours" and/or "Colour Names".

HTH,

Guy


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