[Image-SIG] proble loading font

[Fredrik Lundh]

What platform is this?  If you start a Python interpreter and write:

    >>> import Image
    >>> Image.core

what does it output?

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On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 10:06 AM, ariel goldstien
<ariel.goldstien at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi.
> My name is Ariel Goldstien I work at The Hebrew university laboratory.
> I am trying to write a Hebrew string to a BMP. and I keep getting "The
> _imaging C module is not installed" despite the fact that I have managed to
> import _imaging.
> this is the code:
> import Image
> import ImageDraw
> import ImageFont
> import _imaging
>
> a=u'1אריאל' #u'..' converts to Unicode
> font = ImageFont.truetype('c:/mriam.ttf',24) #standard Hebrew font, this
> line throws the error
> im=Image.new('RGB',(200,200),(100,100,100))
> d=ImageDraw.Draw(im)
> d.text((0,0),a)
> im.show()
> I have spent more than 3 dayes trying to figure it out. any help would be
> very appriciated
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