PIL Issue, OSError: cannot open resource

Question

I\'m attempting to write a program that places text onto an image, I\'m trying to get my head round PIL and have run into the error: OSError: cannot open resource. This is m

Answer 1

I fixed the problem by using default font.

font = ImageFont.load_default()

If you just need to put some text (font style is not matter to you) then this might be a simple solution.

font = ImageFont.load_default()

draw = ImageDraw.Draw(pil_img)
draw.text(( 20, 32), "text_string", (255,0,0), font=font)