PIL Issue, OSError: cannot open resource

Question

I\'m attempting to write a program that places text onto an image, I\'m trying to get my head round PIL and have run into the error: OSError: cannot open resource. This is m

Answer 1

from PIL import Image,ImageDraw,ImageFontim = Image.open("mak.png")
font_type = ImageFont.truetype("arial.ttf", 18)
draw = ImageDraw.Draw(im)
draw.text(xy=(120, 120), text= "download the font that you wanna use", fill =(255,69,0), font = font_type)
im.show()

Its "arial.ttf" not "Arial.ttf"

Here is the link to download arial.ttf font.

Answer 2

PIL cannot find the specified font. Check that it exists, and that it is named with the exact same case. You can also try to copy it directly in the project folder.

Answer 3

I have also met this issue on Windows 10 Pro with PIL 5.3.0.

On my machine, the error is caused by non-ASCII font file names. If I change the the font name to only contain ASCII characters, I can open the font without any error.

Edit (2019-07-29): this is indeed a bug with ImageFont.truetype() method and it has been fixed in this pull request.

Answer 4

I was also facing the same issue. but later found out it was an issue with the slash. So, if anybody else missed this small thing, it's for you.

I had the font inside the font folder. When I tried to import the font using font/<font_name>.ttf, the code couldn't locate it. Replaced / with \ and it could locate the font.

Answer 5

It didn't work for me because the font was not installed. Thanks to the answers given here it work now. Installation can be done here

Answer 6

For Linux I used:

$ locate .ttf

/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ubuntu-font-family/Ubuntu-B.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ubuntu-font-family/Ubuntu-BI.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ubuntu-font-family/Ubuntu-C.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ubuntu-font-family/Ubuntu-L.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ubuntu-font-family/Ubuntu-LI.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ubuntu-font-family/Ubuntu-M.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ubuntu-font-family/Ubuntu-MI.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ubuntu-font-family/Ubuntu-R.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ubuntu-font-family/Ubuntu-RI.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ubuntu-font-family/UbuntuMono-B.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ubuntu-font-family/UbuntuMono-BI.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ubuntu-font-family/UbuntuMono-R.ttf
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ubuntu-font-family/UbuntuMono-RI.ttf

It actually returned A LOT MORE than that!

Then I took the python code posted here in Stack Overflow:

• PIL: Generating Vertical Gradient Image

Plugged in the font name "Ubuntu-R.ttf" returned by locate:

color_palette = [BLUE, GREEN, RED]
image_w=200
image_h=200
region = Rect(0, 0, image_w, image_h)
imgx, imgy = region.max.x+1, region.max.y+1
image = Image.new("RGB", (imgx, imgy), WHITE)
draw = ImageDraw.Draw(image)
vert_gradient(draw, region, gradient_color, color_palette)
#image.text((40, 80),"No Artwork",(255,255,255))
#font = ImageFont.truetype(r'C:\Users\System-Pc\Desktop\arial.ttf', 40)
#font = ImageFont.load_default()
font = ImageFont.truetype("Ubuntu-R.ttf", int(float(image_w) / 6))
draw.text((int(image_w/12), int(image_h / 2.5)), "No Artwork", \
           fill=(0,0,0), font=font)
image.show()

And voila! I now have an image to display when there is no image to display in a music file I'm playing: