fonts clipping with PIL

Question

This image was created with PIL. See how the g\'s and the y\'s are cut off in this image? How can I prevent this?

http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/8874/screenshote

Answer 1

I couldn't solve this problem for some fonts using the approaches mentioned so far, so I ended up using aggdraw as a transparent replacement for PIL's text drawig methods.

Your code rewritten to aggdraw would look like:

import Image
import aggdraw

im = Image.new("RGBA", (200, 200), 'white')
draw = aggdraw.Draw(im)

# note that the color is specified in the font constructor in aggdraw
font = aggdraw.Font((0,0,0), "VeraSe.ttf", size=12, opacity=255)

draw.text((1, 1), " %s: " % "ggjyfFwe__", font) # no color here
draw.text((1, 30), " %s" % 15, font)

draw.flush() # don't forget this to update the underlying PIL image!

im.show()