The Pillow package lets you draw text on images using Python. This includes using TrueType and OpenType fonts. You have a lot of flexibility when adding this text to your images. If you’d like to Read more…
Pillow supports drawing text on your images in addition to shapes. Pillow uses its own font file format to store bitmap fonts, limited to 256 characters. Pillow also supports TrueType and OpenType fonts as well Read more…
This week we welcome Carl Friedrich Bolz (@cfbolz) as our PyDev of the Week! Carl is a core developer of PyPy, which is an RPython variant of CPython that runs faster in general than regular Read more…
In June of last year, Apple announced that the Mac would transition to Apple’s own chips, called Apple Silicon. Here at PyCharm, this would mean major changes to the way we build our software. A Read more…
We are starting our new Early Access Program (EAP) for PyCharm 2021.1. You can now try the pre-release build of the upcoming v2021.1. It delivers enhanced support for Cython as well as UI and usability Read more…
The final bug-fix release for PyCharm 2020.3 is out. You can upgrade to v2020.3.3 with the Toolbox App, or right from the IDE, or by using snap if you are an Ubuntu user. It is Read more…
Python has the concept of the virtual environments built-in to the language. A Python virtual environment is an environment where you can install 3rd party packages for testing without affecting the system Python installation. Each Read more…
The Pillow package gives you the ability to extract EXIF (Exchangeable Image File Format) metadata from images. You can get a lot of information about your images via the EXIF data. However, there are some Read more…
Last December PyCharm supported the Python Software Foundation (PSF) on their Q4/2020 fundraiser campaign. All proceeds from every new PyCharm Professional Edition license purchased with the discount code ‘ISUPPORTPYTHON2020’ went to the PSF’s general fund. Read more…
My Kickstarter for my latest book, Pillow: Image Processing with Python is ending in 8 days. You should check it out and learn how you can edit photos with Python! You will learn about the Read more…