This is the script:
import PIL from PIL import ImageFont from PIL import Image from PIL import ImageDraw font = ImageFont.truetype("/usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSans.ttf",25) img=Image.new("RGBA", (200,200),(120,20,20)) draw = ImageDraw.Draw(img) draw.text((0, 0),"This is a test",(255,255,0),font=font) draw = ImageDraw.Draw(img) draw = ImageDraw.Draw(img) img.save("a_test.png")The only error that can occur is not to find the font.
In this case you must change the code line:
font = ImageFont.truetype("/usr/share/fonts/dejavu/DejaVuSans.ttf",25)Here is the result script: