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Re: [pygame] Pygame font issues



hi,

what are the permissions of the font file?  Maybe something weird is
going on there?


cu,

On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 3:14 AM, Peter Chant <pete@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Saturday 02 May 2009, Yanom Mobis wrote:
>> does
>>
>> font = pygame.font.Font(None, 36)
>>
>> use the player's default system font?
>
> None does not work:
>
>    self.font = pygame.font.Font(None,36)
> RuntimeError: default font not found 'freesansbold.ttf'
>
> its looking for freesansbold, which even though it exists, can't be found:
>
> bash-3.1$ locate freesansbold.ttf
> /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/pygame/freesansbold.ttf
>
> Note, I think your reference to default systems font is a windows reference.
> I'm on linux.
>
> Pete
>
>
>
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