Wordcloud Only Supported for Truetype Fonts
I Am Trying to Generate a Word Cloud Using the Wordcloud Module in Python, However I See the Following Error Whenever I Call. Generate Traceback (Most Recent...
I am trying to generate a word cloud using the WordCloud module in Python, however I see the following error whenever I call .generate
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/mnt/6db3226b-5f96-4257-980d-bb8ec1dad8e7/test.py", line 4, in <module>
wc.generate("foo bar foo bar hello world")
File "/home/mjc/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/wordcloud/wordcloud.py", line 639, in generate
return self.generate_from_text(text)
File "/home/mjc/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/wordcloud/wordcloud.py", line 621, in generate_from_text
self.generate_from_frequencies(words)
File "/home/mjc/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/wordcloud/wordcloud.py", line 453, in generate_from_frequencies
self.generate_from_frequencies(dict(frequencies[:2]),
File "/home/mjc/.local/lib/python3.10/site-packages/wordcloud/wordcloud.py", line 508, in generate_from_frequencies
box_size = draw.textbbox((0, 0), word, font=transposed_font, anchor="lt")
File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/PIL/ImageDraw.py", line 671, in textbbox
raise ValueError("Only supported for TrueType fonts")
ValueError: Only supported for TrueType fonts
As it stands, I am trying to create a very simple example WordCloud
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
from wordcloud import WordCloud
wc = WordCloud(background_color="white", font_path="./arial.ttf", width=800, height=400)
wc.generate("foo bar foo bar hello world")
plt.axis("off")
plt.imshow(wc)
plt.savefig("test.png")
plt.show()
Where arial.ttf is downloaded from and placed in the same directory as test.py. I am using Ubuntu 22.04 and Python 3.10.6.
I was expecting to generate a word cloud from the input "foo bar foo bar hello world", however see the error ValueError: Only supported for TrueType fonts despite passing a ttf to the font_path argument.
4 Answers
These work for me:
pip install --upgrade pip
pip install --upgrade Pillow
Tell me if it doesn't work
I could not reproduce your error with Python 3.10 even after downloading the same font - though I am on macOS.
The only thing I can imagine is that your PIL doesn't support TrueType fonts, so you can check with:
python3 -m PIL
Sample Output
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Pillow 9.4.0
Python 3.10.0 (v3.10.0:b494f5935c, Oct 4 2021, 14:59:19) [Clang 12.0.5 (clang-1205.0.22.11)]
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Python modules loaded from /Library/Frameworks/
Binary modules loaded from /Library/Frameworks/
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--- PIL CORE support ok, compiled for 9.4.0
--- TKINTER support ok, loaded 8.6
--- FREETYPE2 support ok, loaded 2.13.0 <--- HERE
--- LITTLECMS2 support ok, loaded 2.14
--- WEBP support ok, loaded 1.3.0
--- WEBP Transparency support ok
--- WEBPMUX support ok
--- WEBP Animation support ok
--- JPEG support ok, compiled for libjpeg-turbo 2.1.4
--- OPENJPEG (JPEG2000) support ok, loaded 2.5.0
--- ZLIB (PNG/ZIP) support ok, loaded 1.2.13
--- LIBTIFF support ok, loaded 4.5.0
--- RAQM (Bidirectional Text) support ok, loaded 0.9.0, fribidi 1.0.12, harfbuzz 7.1.0
*** LIBIMAGEQUANT (Quantization method) support not installed
--- XCB (X protocol) support ok
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BLP
Extensions: .blp
Features: open, save, encode
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BMP image/bmp
Extensions: .bmp
Features: open, save
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BUFR
Extensions: .bufr
Features: open, save
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CUR
Extensions: .cur
Features: open
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DCX
Extensions: .dcx
Features: open
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DDS
Extensions: .dds
Features: open, save
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DIB image/bmp
Extensions: .dib
Features: open, save
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EPS application/postscript
Extensions: .eps, .ps
Features: open, save
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FITS
Extensions: .fit, .fits
Features: open, save
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FLI
Extensions: .flc, .fli
Features: open
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FTEX
Extensions: .ftc, .ftu
Features: open
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GBR
Extensions: .gbr
Features: open
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GIF image/gif
Extensions: .gif
Features: open, save, save_all
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GRIB
Extensions: .grib
Features: open, save
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HDF5
Extensions: .h5, .hdf
Features: open, save
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ICNS image/icns
Extensions: .icns
Features: open, save
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ICO image/x-icon
Extensions: .ico
Features: open, save
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IM
Extensions: .im
Features: open, save
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IMT
Features: open
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IPTC
Extensions: .iim
Features: open
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JPEG image/jpeg
Extensions: .jfif, .jpe, .jpeg, .jpg
Features: open, save
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JPEG2000 image/jp2
Extensions: .j2c, .j2k, .jp2, .jpc, .jpf, .jpx
Features: open, save
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MCIDAS
Features: open
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MPEG video/mpeg
Extensions: .mpeg, .mpg
Features: open
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MSP
Extensions: .msp
Features: open, save, decode
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PCD
Extensions: .pcd
Features: open
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PCX image/x-pcx
Extensions: .pcx
Features: open, save
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PIXAR
Extensions: .pxr
Features: open
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PNG image/png
Extensions: .apng, .png
Features: open, save, save_all
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PPM image/x-portable-anymap
Extensions: .pbm, .pgm, .pnm, .ppm
Features: open, save
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PSD image/vnd.adobe.photoshop
Extensions: .psd
Features: open
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SGI image/sgi
Extensions: .bw, .rgb, .rgba, .sgi
Features: open, save
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SPIDER
Features: open, save
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SUN
Extensions: .ras
Features: open
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TGA image/x-tga
Extensions: .icb, .tga, .vda, .vst
Features: open, save
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TIFF image/tiff
Extensions: .tif, .tiff
Features: open, save, save_all
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WEBP image/webp
Extensions: .webp
Features: open, save, save_all
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WMF
Extensions: .emf, .wmf
Features: open, save
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XBM image/xbm
Extensions: .xbm
Features: open, save
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XPM image/xpm
Extensions: .xpm
Features: open
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XVTHUMB
Features: open
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Or, more speedily - since we are only interested in "freetype" lines:
python3 -m PIL | grep -i type
Then you may need to install freetype with a command something like - not too sure of the exact package name:
sudo apt install libfreetype6
Using Python 3.6, re-installed wordcloud 1.8.0 (pip install wordcloud==1.8.0), issue fixed. Latest version of WordCloud does not support Python3.6 as per official docs.
tried this solution 1
upgrading PIP and Pillow didn't work for me like many of others
tried this solution 2 - worked very well for me
Using Python 3.6, re-installed wordcloud 1.8.0 (pip install wordcloud==1.8.0), issue fixed. Latest version of WordCloud does not support Python3.6 as per official docs.
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