Cygwin font problems: freetype 2.1?

[Steve Holden]

Having asked this question with no reply on comp.lang.python and the 
image-sig list I now turn to the Cygwin community. I'd really appreciate 
Cc's to my email address as I am not a subscriber to cygwin@cygwin.com.

Is anyone aware of (a fix for) problems I'm having getting the Python 
Imaging Library (PIL) 1.1.5 to create bitmaps using TrueType and 
openType fonts from the /c/WINDOWS/Fonts directory? When I create an 
image using ImageFont.load() on the standard PIL font files everything 
seems fine, but when I use ImageFont.truetype(<font-file>, <size>) no 
text is drawn.

setup.py reports from debug print statements that it's finding 
freetype21 when I build PIL from source under Cygwin.

The same code (using Fredrik Lundh's pre-built binary) on Windows runs
correctly and produces correct images from Windows fonts.

Cygwin runs Python 2.4.1, Windows runs 2.4. Any comments that shed light 
on this mystery will be gratefully received.

regards
  Steve
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