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Can't print image

Faced such a problem. The image is created and saved, everything is correct, but I can't print it automatically. What could be the problem?
P.S. I tried to save the file in PDF format, it is printed automatically, but on the entire A4 sheet, but I need it without changing the scale.
My code:
import win32api
from PIL import Image, ImageDraw, ImageFont
img = Image.new("RGB", (300, 250), 'white')
draw = ImageDraw.Draw(img)
sticker_text = 'Name\nSurname\n\nCompany'
font = ImageFont.truetype('arial.ttf', size=40)
_, _, w, h = draw.textbbox((0, 0), sticker_text, font=font)
draw.text(((300 - w) / 2, (250 - h) / 2), sticker_text, font=font, fill='black', align='center')
img.save('link_to_file.jpg')
file = "link_to_file.jpg"
win32api.ShellExecute(0, "print", file, None, ".", 0)
Thanks for your answers.

How to set anchor to fit the text at center of image with PIL.ImageDraw.Draw.text?

Drawn text on an image with Pillow library, tried to fit the text anchored at center of image by option anchor='mm', but it looks not exactly as center of image.
Demo code
from PIL import Image, ImageDraw, ImageFont
im = Image.new("RGBA", (500, 500), (255, 255, 255, 255))
font = ImageFont.truetype(font='arial.ttf', size=320)
draw = ImageDraw.Draw(im)
draw.text((250, 250), "123", font=font, fill='black', anchor='mm')
im.show()
result:
expectation:

The reason why the text looks misaligned is because there is a little margin at the left of the 1 and pillow will align the text including this margin.
Adding 0 at both ends will visualize that it is correctly centered and that there is a large margin at 1.
If you want to align the text excluding margins, ImageFont.getmask is helpful.
def get_offset_for_true_mm(text, draw, font):
anchor_bbox = draw.textbbox((0, 0), text, font=font, anchor='lt')
anchor_center = (anchor_bbox[0] + anchor_bbox[2]) // 2, (anchor_bbox[1] + anchor_bbox[3]) // 2
mask_bbox = font.getmask(text).getbbox()
mask_center = (mask_bbox[0] + mask_bbox[2]) // 2, (mask_bbox[1] + mask_bbox[3]) // 2
return anchor_center[0] - mask_center[0], anchor_center[1] - mask_center[1]
im = Image.new("RGBA", (500, 500), (255, 255, 255, 255))
font = ImageFont.truetype(font='arial.ttf', size=320)
draw = ImageDraw.Draw(im)
text = "123"
offset = get_offset_for_true_mm(text, draw, font)
draw.text((250 + offset[0], 250 + offset[1]), text, font=font, fill='black', anchor='mm')
im.show()
Result:

How do I reduce the number of colors used in ImageDraw.text

I have a folder with .ttf and .otf fonts and would like to write them on my ImageDraw object but with NO shading. A single RGB only. I have tried bitmap fonts but they A) don't look nice and B) use more than one color anyway.
I have read that there is a library for converting .bdf to .pil. If I convert arial.ttf to arial.bdf and then to arial.pil, will this be what I'm looking for? The text will almost always be dropped onto a background--so should I consider writing the text first on a blank canvas, do a color reduction, and then paste that canvas onto my background?
I have previously made this program using Java and it writes text very nicely on my bitmaps. One color, symmetrical, etc. Image below.
Below are the two attempts with python. The blockier one is a bitmap font, the other is regular arial.ttf.
Here is my code:
def personalize(self):
names = self.personalize_entry.get("1.0", 'end-1c').split('\n')
num_names = len(names)
num_grids = math.ceil(num_names/20)
answer = ask_grid_background()
separator = Image.new('RGB', (473, 1), color_dict['P'])
background = Image.new('RGB', (473, 821), color_dict['.'])
if answer:
showinfo("Bitmap", "Give me the design.")
file_path = filedialog.askopenfilename()
filename = path_leaf(file_path)
filename = filename[:-4]
__, __, center = read(file_path)
if center == 0:
messagebox.showinfo("Hmmm", f"I couldn't find a center...are you sure this is a basic set up?")
return False
img = Image.open(file_path)
size_num = img.size
section = img.crop((5, (size_num[1] - 55 - center), 478, (size_num[1] - center - 15)))
background.paste(separator, (0, 0))
for i in range(20):
background.paste(section, (0, (41 * i + 1)))
background.paste(separator, (0, (41 * i) + 41))
else:
background.paste(separator, (0, 0))
for i in range(20):
# background.paste(section,(0,(41*i+1)))
background.paste(separator, (0, (41 * i) + 41))
draw = ImageDraw.Draw(background)
fnt = ImageFont.truetype("Fonts/PIXEAB__.ttf",36)
draw.text((10, 10), names[0], font=fnt, fill=(0, 0, 0))
background.show()

ImageDraw has an undocumented member fontmode, which can be set to '1' (cf. Pillow's image modes) to turn off the anti-aliasing of the rendered text.
Let's compare common rendered text, draw.fontmode is implicitly set to 'L':
from PIL import Image, ImageDraw, ImageFont
image = Image.new('RGB', (800, 200), (255, 255, 255))
draw = ImageDraw.Draw(image)
font = ImageFont.truetype('arial.ttf', 150)
draw.text((10, 10), 'Hello World', font=font, fill=(0, 0, 0))
image.save('image.png')
Now, let's explicitly set draw.fontmode = '1':
from PIL import Image, ImageDraw, ImageFont
image = Image.new('RGB', (800, 200), (255, 255, 255))
draw = ImageDraw.Draw(image)
draw.fontmode = '1'
font = ImageFont.truetype('arial.ttf', 150)
draw.text((10, 10), 'Hello World', font=font, fill=(0, 0, 0))
image.save('image.png')
Et voilà – no anti-aliasing, all pixels are solid black.
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System information
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Platform: Windows-10-10.0.16299-SP0
Python: 3.9.1
PyCharm: 2021.1
Pillow: 8.2.0
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By Using python pil, I want to make image centered with text from url and download. How to do it?

I input a text at url, and want to get downloaded image that the text is centered.
for example,
when I input,
http://127.0.0.1:8000/app/hello, then an image is downloaded.
That image centers the text 'hello'
def homework(request, name):
text = name
img = Image.new('RGB',(256,256),(0,0,0))
draw = ImageDraw.Draw(img)
font = ImageFont.load_default().font
draw.text((128,128), text, font = font, fill="black")
with open(img, 'rb') as f:
response = HttpResponse(f, content_type='image/jpeg')
response['Content-Disposition'] = 'attachment; filename="textimage"'
return response
By using python pil.
How to do it?

#install PIL (Pillow) via Pip
from PIL import Image
from PIL import ImageFont
from PIL import ImageDraw
#position of Text
x = 50
y = 50
#font color as tuple
color = (255, 255, 255)
#download the image to the local system and open it
img = Image.open("1.jpg")
#draw image and prepare font
draw = ImageDraw.Draw(img)
font = ImageFont.truetype('arial.ttf', size=30)
#draw text on image
draw.text((x, y),"Sample Text", color,font=font)
#save the new image, that contains the text
img.save('sample-out.jpg')

How to convert a string to an image?

I started to learn python a week ago and want to write a small program that converts a email to a image (.png) so that it can be shared on forums without risking to get lots of spam mails.
It seems like the python standard library doesn't contain a module that can do that but I've found out that there's a PIL module for it (PIL.ImageDraw).
My problem is that I can't seem to get it working.
So basically my questions are:
How to draw a text onto a image.
How to create a blank (white) image
Is there a way to do this without actually creating a file so that I can show it in a GUI before saving it?
Current Code:
import Image
import ImageDraw
import ImageFont
def getSize(txt, font):
testImg = Image.new('RGB', (1, 1))
testDraw = ImageDraw.Draw(testImg)
return testDraw.textsize(txt, font)
if __name__ == '__main__':
fontname = "Arial.ttf"
fontsize = 11
text = "example#gmail.com"
colorText = "black"
colorOutline = "red"
colorBackground = "white"
font = ImageFont.truetype(fontname, fontsize)
width, height = getSize(text, font)
img = Image.new('RGB', (width+4, height+4), colorBackground)
d = ImageDraw.Draw(img)
d.text((2, height/2), text, fill=colorText, font=font)
d.rectangle((0, 0, width+3, height+3), outline=colorOutline)
img.save("D:/image.png")

use ImageDraw.text - but it doesn't do any formating, it just prints string at the given location
img = Image.new('RGB', (200, 100))
d = ImageDraw.Draw(img)
d.text((20, 20), 'Hello', fill=(255, 0, 0))
to find out the text size:
text_width, text_height = d.textsize('Hello')
When creating image, add an aditional argument with the required color (white):
img = Image.new('RGB', (200, 100), (255, 255, 255))
until you save the image with Image.save method, there would be no file. Then it's only a matter of a proper transformation to put it into your GUI's format for display. This can be done by encoding the image into an in-memory image file:
import cStringIO
s = cStringIO.StringIO()
img.save(s, 'png')
in_memory_file = s.getvalue()
or if you use python3:
import io
s = io.BytesIO()
img.save(s, 'png')
in_memory_file = s.getvalue()
this can be then send to GUI. Or you can send direct raw bitmap data:
raw_img_data = img.tostring()

The first 3 lines are not complete, when I'm not wrong. The correct code would be:
from PIL import Image
from PIL import ImageDraw
from PIL import ImageFont