FreeType

Steve Holden steve at holdenweb.com
Thu May 17 17:48:21 EDT 2007


Michael Bentley wrote:
> On May 17, 2007, at 2:47 PM, Glich wrote:
> 
>> I've been there. All the code is in C/C++, don't I need it in python?
>> I will explore the software. I dismissed this because there was no
>> python. I am knew to all of this. Thanks for your reply.
> 
> The c stuff (freetype) is what you need (it gets installed as a  
> library that can be used by python or any other software entity that  
> needs its functionality).  It may seem a little weird, but lots of  
> the stuff you call from python is written in c.  More than likely,  
> your python interpreter is also written in c :-)
> 
> 
Alternatively use the Python Imaging Library (PIL), which I believe 
includes freetype support.

regards
  Steve
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