This sounds like issue #144, unable to render text.
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On 13-10-04 05:50 AM, Jason
Marshall wrote:
> I would like to use
the freetype module to render text from a BDF font
> file, but I am getting a vague error. I am using the 8x8 font from
> this site:
>
http://beej.us/c64bdf/c64bdf/c64.bdf>
> >>>import os
> >>>os.environ["PYGAME_FREETYPE"] = "1"
> >>>import pygame
> >>> pygame.font
> <module 'pygame.ftfont' from
> 'C:\\Python33\\lib\\site-packages\\pygame\\ftfont.py'>
> >>> import pygame.freetype
> >>> pygame.freetype.init()
> >>> c64 = pygame.freetype.Font(r'C:\Users\marshalls\Downloads\c64.bdf', 8)
> >>> s = c64.render('TEST',
pygame.Color('white'), pygame.Color('blue'))
> Traceback (most recent call last):
> File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
> SystemError: error return without exception set
> >>>
>
> Can somebody spot what I am doing wrong?
>
> I am using a recent build of pygame 1.9.2pre and Python 3.3 (32-bit)
> on Windows.
>
> Thanks,
> Jason