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alexr
alexr

Reputation: 3

How to add words on a picture and bold one of them using Pillow in Python?

I add text on the image using PIL library in Python. How can I bold one word in a sentence? Let's say I want to write in the picture: "This is an example sentence".

Upvotes: 0

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Answers (1)

DapperDuck
DapperDuck

Reputation: 2859

Currently, you can't bold, underline, italicize etc. certain parts of a sentence. You can use multiple separate .text() commands and change their x-y coordinates to make it look like one sentence. To bold text, you can use a bolded text font in a font family, and use that font for a .text() command. In the example below, I used the Arial and the Arial Bold font. I am on a windows machine, so the file paths will be different on Linux or Mac.

Code:

#import statements
import PIL
import PIL.Image as Image
import PIL.ImageDraw as ImageDraw
import PIL.ImageFont as ImageFont

#save fonts
font_fname = '/fonts/Arial/arial.ttf'
font_fname_bold = '/fonts/Arial/arialbd.ttf'
font_size = 25

#regular font
font = ImageFont.truetype(font_fname, font_size)

#bolded font
font_bold = ImageFont.truetype(font_fname_bold, font_size)

#Open test image. Make sure it is in the same working directory!
with Image.open("test.jpg") as img:
    #Create object to draw on
    draw = ImageDraw.Draw(img)
    
    #Add text
    draw.text(xy=(10,10),text="Gardens have ",font=font)
    draw.text(xy=(175,10),text="many",font=font_bold)
    draw.text(xy=(240,10),text=" plants and flowers",font=font)

#Display new image
img.show()

Test image:

https://i.sstatic.net/zU75J.jpg

Upvotes: 1

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