Using pixel fonts in PIL

Question

I create images using PIL, which contain many precisely arranged text strings. My first attempt was to convert the pixel fonts to a writable format, as described here . For example, I download the Silksreen font and convert it:

otf2bdf -p 8pt -o fonts/slkscr.bdf fonts/slkscr.ttf pilfont.py fonts/slkscr.bdf 

Then I can use the font in PIL like this:

 import Image, ImageDraw, os, sys, ImageFont im = Image.new("RGB", (40,10)) draw = ImageDraw.Draw(im) fn = ImageFont.load('fonts/slkscr.pil') draw.text((0,0), "Hello", font=fn) del draw # write to stdout im.save(sys.stdout, "PNG") 

However, the resulting image ( ) does not reflect what the font should look like .

What procedure should I use to convert and use pixel fonts so that they appear as intended?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Eureka!

You just need to specify a resolution of 72 dpi (default is 100) for otf2bdf:

 otf2bdf -p 8 -r 72 -o fonts/slkscr.bdf fonts/slkscr.ttf 

Now looks great!