Cross platform TTF font render from Python [was: Load TTF from pycairo under Windows]

[Laszlo Nagy]

Hi All,

I need to render antialiased PNG images using TTF font files and UTF-8 
text. It needs to be available at least on Linux and Windows. This is 
what I have tried:

#1. PIL - it has some problems and I cannot use it. Specifically, the 
ImageFont.getsize() returns bad value for some fonts, and there are some 
TTF fonts that are rendered incorrectly  (UTF-8)

#2. pycairo - very sophisticated, nice features, knows and does 
everything correctly. However, has no native support for libfreetype. I 
could write an extension in C and use it from Linux. Not available on 
windows.

#3. gdmodule - I tried to install in under windows without success. No 
binary installer available.

#4. pygame - documentation looks great, it is cross platform. But the 
first example program I had tried has been terminated, printing out 
memory dump and complaining about double freeing some memory location.

What other options do we have?

Thanks,
 
  Laszlo