[Tutor] PIL, fonts and making images (fwd)

[Danny Yoo]

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Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 09:47:58 +0100
From: Rinzwind <w.damen at gmail.com>
To: Danny Yoo <dyoo at hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu>
Subject: Re: PIL, fonts and making images

That's not good.

Well I guess it does what it is suppose to do: make it able to create
diagrams and the person who made them didn't intend them to be used as
text. Oh and I guess it's made for Windows :P
Pity. My idea seemed cool when I thought of it :-)

Oh and I did it with a detour: opened up GIMP and made my own 90x90
PNG's. In my new 'chess' game I'll convert them to smaller if needed.
It's just that with the way I tgought I'd do it I'd be able to have a
fonts dir and people could add their own and I'd automagically made
them into screens.

I'll have a look at another chess font when I am home if it's also
with others (only tried with one :-P )

On 1/17/06, Danny Yoo <dyoo at hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> > 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 )
>
> Hi Rinzwind,
>
> You might want to contact the folks who make that font: according to the
> Fontbook on my Mac OS X box, that particular font has serious problems.
> My system says that it's defective because it's missing a "Font Name
> Table", whatever that is.
>
> Best of wishes to you!
>
>