Center-/middle-align text with PIL?

Question

How would I center-align (and middle-vertical-align) text when using PIL?

Answer 1

Here is some example code which uses textwrap to split a long line into pieces, and then uses the textsize method to compute the positions.

from PIL import Image, ImageDraw, ImageFont
import textwrap

astr = '''The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plains.'''
para = textwrap.wrap(astr, width=15)

MAX_W, MAX_H = 200, 200
im = Image.new('RGB', (MAX_W, MAX_H), (0, 0, 0, 0))
draw = ImageDraw.Draw(im)
font = ImageFont.truetype(
    '/usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/Arial.ttf', 18)

current_h, pad = 50, 10
for line in para:
    w, h = draw.textsize(line, font=font)
    draw.text(((MAX_W - w) / 2, current_h), line, font=font)
    current_h += h + pad

im.save('test.png')