[Tutor] PIL, fonts and making images

[Rinzwind]

I've been using python wih PIL to create some buttons (automatically inside
my program). The following code works and creates a PNG 70x70 with the
letter 'p' inside.

#!/usr/bin/python

import os, sys
import Image, ImageFont, ImageDraw

image = Image.new('RGBA',(70,70),(0,0,0))
ifo = ImageFont.truetype("arial.ttf",24)
#ifo = ImageFont.truetype("MARRFONT.TTF",24)
draw = ImageDraw.Draw(image)
draw.text((0, 0), 'p', font=ifo)
image.save('image.png','PNG')



I save this program inside a temp dir and copied arial.ttf inside this
directory. It works :-)

Want I want though is to do this with MARRFONT.TTF. That is a (free) font
that has chesspieces inside. (can be downloaded here:
http://antraxja-fonts.iweb.pl/pobierz.php?font=3903 )

The font works: inside the download there's a DOC that I can open with
OO.org and that let's me show the chesspieces (after I copied the font to my
fontsdir). If I type a 'p' in arial and then change the font it shows a
Pawn. Cool isn't it? :)

But when I un-comment the line with this font and save it I get a black
square. Can anyone tell me why it doesn't work?
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