wiredfool

That appears to be a very complicated way to draw text. Have you tried the more straightforward way to use the api? http://pillow.readthedocs.io/en/3.4.x/reference/ImageDraw.html#example-draw-partial-opacity-text

I'm not sure I have access to any of those fonts, but I suspect that this is a case of not having the normalization step from unicode -> combined glyphs....

If you can render standard uncomplicated fonts, then I'd bet that #1682 is one solution, however convoluted. FWIW, your rendering looks quite complicated, and it appears that it's a really...

That repo seems to work on my machine. It's pretty easy to skip the dependency on numpy and directly output an image from the `scribe` function: ```python return Image.frombuffer('L', (width,...

Ok, so it's a complete solution through a different stack than we're using. This has potential. Do you have a license for it? Hopefully something compatible with Pillow?

Maybe, there's been development since then in a different implementation using harfbuzz and raqm. Otoh, this might be a reasonable alternate implementation, as it's a small interface and we don't...

This should be fixed in 4.2.0 with the merge of #2576

Short answer -- Not now. Dependencies are harder to build on windows, and libfribidi is GPL, so we wouldn't be able to distribute it in the binaries, at least by...

Unfortunately, no.

To do anything useful with it, we'd have to have support in the C layer, so it would have to be at the core imaging layer, and especially Unpack/Pack.