Extract a png image for each character in a PIL ImageFont and store them in a folder. Contruct a PIL ImageFont from a folder containing a png image for each character.
python -m pip install pil-font-maker
On a command line type:
pil-font-decode
Usage: pil-font-decode <file.pil> [folder]
To convert a .pil/.pbm ImageFont to a folder containing a .png for each character present
pil-font-encode
Usage: pil-font-encode <folder> [file.pil]
Convert a folder containing a .png for each character to a .pil/.pbm ImageFont. The pngs should be named char_0.png, char_1.png upto char_255.png Omitted pngs will result in empty characters.
pil-font-download
Usage: pil-font-download
Download some sample pil fonts from the pillow github repository