PIL OSError when font is missing

[sam210723]

PIL throws an OSError when it can't load a font

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "enhance-ir.py", line 338, in <module>
    init()
  File "enhance-ir.py", line 82, in init
    handle_input(args.INPUT)
  File "enhance-ir.py", line 184, in handle_input
    process(input)
  File "enhance-ir.py", line 244, in process
    fnt = ImageFont.truetype("arialbd.ttf", size=38)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/PIL/ImageFont.py", line 280, in truetype
    return FreeTypeFont(font, size, index, encoding, layout_engine)
  File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/PIL/ImageFont.py", line 145, in __init__
    layout_engine=layout_engine)
OSError: cannot open resource

[sam210723]

Possibly caused by non-Unicode characters in font path

• OSError when opening a font file whose name is not in English python-pillow/Pillow#3480
• Fixed loading font with non-Unicode path on Windows python-pillow/Pillow#3785
• ImageFont and non latin characters in a path to font python-pillow/Pillow#3145
• pil-issue-oserror-cannot-open-resource

[sam210723]

Same issue after updating to Pillow 7.0.0

[sam210723]

Added try/catch and warning for missing fonts in 92df164

[johachi]

I have the same issue when using Windows 10 with Japanese and trying to open the font ARIAL.TTF

I'm using version 7.0.0 and handle dependencies with Poetry

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "render_annotations.py", line 240, in <module>
    main(file_path)
  File "render_annotations.py", line 216, in main
    write_image_with_annotations(image_annotations, url, item["key"])
  File "render_annotations.py", line 182, in write_image_with_annotations
    newly_drawn_text_box = draw_annotation_to_image(annotation, image, drawn_text_boxes)
  File "render_annotations.py", line 154, in draw_annotation_to_image
    return draw_text(annotation, image, drawn_text_boxes)
  File "render_annotations.py", line 112, in draw_text
    fnt = ImageFont.truetype("ARIAL.TTF", ANNOTATION_FONT_SIZE)
  File "C:\Users\Man\AppData\Local\pypoetry\Cache\virtualenvs\qa-show-all-annotations-gvzPHQ0M-py3.7\lib\site-packages\PIL\ImageFont.py", line 642, in truetype
    return freetype(font)
  File "C:\Users\Man\AppData\Local\pypoetry\Cache\virtualenvs\qa-show-all-annotations-gvzPHQ0M-py3.7\lib\site-packages\PIL\ImageFont.py", line 639, in freetype
    return FreeTypeFont(font, size, index, encoding, layout_engine)
  File "C:\Users\Man\AppData\Local\pypoetry\Cache\virtualenvs\qa-show-all-annotations-gvzPHQ0M-py3.7\lib\site-packages\PIL\ImageFont.py", line 188, in __init__
    font, size, index, encoding, layout_engine=layout_engine
OSError: cannot open resource
PS C:\Users\Man\Documents\GitHub\crowd-ops\Projects\Add-Annotations> 

I was able to find a work-around copying the file to the same folder as the script and then changing:

fnt = ImageFont.truetype("ARIAL.TTF", ANNOTATION_FONT_SIZE)

to

fnt = ImageFont.truetype("./ARIAL.TTF", ANNOTATION_FONT_SIZE)

[sam210723]

Ok interesting, this seems to be a bit tedious to get going cross-platform. I'll investigate.