Show Text with PIL

This post demonstrates a way to display text, including Chinese, using PIL (Python Image Library).

1. Python Image Library (PIL) will be called. This can be installed by:
   # apt-get install python-pil
2. TrueType or OpenType fonts of the system are called. Check your system fonts in:
   /usr/share/fonts
   You are required to give the exact filename (e.g. XXX.ttf) for the fonts to be used. However, the paths for locating the font files are not necessary.
3. Beautiful Chinese fonts are available from Google Noto project:
   https://www.google.com/get/noto/help/cjk/

Source Code

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# -*- coding: utf-8 -*- # Title : Displaying Text with PIL # references: # https://pillow.readthedocs.io/en/stable/reference/Image.html#examples # https://pillow.readthedocs.io/en/3.0.x/reference/ImageFont.html import PIL from PIL import ImageFont, ImageDraw # create a blank image (wxh:128x128) img = PIL.Image.new('RGB',(128,128),0) drw = ImageDraw.Draw(img) # define fonts to be used #fnt = PIL.ImageFont.truetype('DejaVuSans.ttf',10) fnt1 = PIL.ImageFont.truetype('DejaVuSans-Bold.ttf',10) fnt2 = PIL.ImageFont.truetype( 'NotoSansTC-Bold.otf',12,encoding='unic') # unic - unicode drw.text((10,10),"Hello all,",font=fnt1) drw.text((10,24),"I come from Mars.",font=fnt1) drw.text((10,38),u"高雄車站",font=fnt2) img.save('t1.png','PNG')

t1.png

The image obtained