PIL set font trouble

[Fredrik Lundh]

Zajcev Evgeny wrote:
>     self.font = ImageFont.load_path("BDF/courR14.pil")
>   File "/usr/local/lib/python1.6/site-packages/PIL/ImageFont.py", line 97, in load_path
>     raise IOError, "cannot find font file"
> IOError: cannot find font file
> 
> --so i dont find any courR14.pil file in my file system

if you don't have the fonts, PIL cannot load them.

you can generate font files from X window fonts (BDF
and/or PCF files), using the pilfont tool provided with
PIL.

precompiled PIL fonts are available from:

    http://www.cs.su.oz.au/~piers/python/pilfonts.html
    http://members.home.com/lenticular/

and also in the PIDDLE (and reportlab?) packages.

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