freetype.ft_errors.FT_Exception: FT_Exception: (cannot open resource) about freetype-py HOT 2 CLOSED

Hi!
If you want to run the code from IDLE, you probably need to specify the full path to a TTF you want to render, try e.g.

import freetype
face = freetype.Face(r'C:\Windows\Fonts\arial.ttf')
face.set_char_size( 48*64 )
face.load_char('S')
bitmap = face.glyph.bitmap
print (bitmap.buffer)

Note the r in front of 'C:\Windows\Fonts\arial.ttf', this makes Windows paths work in Python.

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Thank you madig. That did work! I was also able to get it to work by placing a ttf file in the directory with the example code file. It is outputting a bunch of comma delimited numbers to the Python 3.6.5 shell. The "r" before the path is a useful tip as I did not know that. Thx!

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