RTL Direction issue

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What did you do?

I'm trying to put an RTL(Right to left direction) text(Arabic) on an image

What did you expect to happen?

being able to set the direction of the text

What actually happened?

I got an error saying setting text direction, language or font features is not supported without libraqm

What are your OS, Python and Pillow versions?

• OS: Windows (Running pycharm virtual python)
• Python: 3.6
• Pillow: PIL 7.0.0

import PIL
import arabic_reshaper
from PIL import Image, ImageDraw, ImageFont
from bidi.algorithm import get_display

    image = Image.open('main.jpeg')

    draw = ImageDraw.Draw(image)

    font = ImageFont.truetype('din-next-lt-w23-medium.ttf', size=60)

    text_to_be_reshaped = 'محمد'
    reshaped_text = arabic_reshaper.reshape(text_to_be_reshaped)
    bidi_text = get_display(reshaped_text)
    print(bidi_text.__sizeof__() + font.size)
    print(type(bidi_text))
    (x, y) = (1050, 463)
    color = 'rgb(255, 255, 255)'  # white color
    draw.text((x, y), bidi_text, fill=color, font=font, direction="rtl")

    # draw the message on the background

    image.save('result.png')

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same issue on Linux Ubuntu 16.04

[hugovk]

setting text direction or font features is not supported without libraqm.

https://pillow.readthedocs.io/en/stable/installation.html

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setting text direction or font features is not supported without libraqm.

https://pillow.readthedocs.io/en/stable/installation.html

okay I have installed the libraqm and ran the test on there it worked well now the problem I'm still getting this error
KeyError: 'setting text direction, language or font features is not supported without libraqm'
I have even ran this code I found in the docs

pip3.6 install --upgrade Pillow

Requirement already up-to-date: Pillow in /usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages (7.0.0)

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I have installed libraqm in /usr/bin/lib/libraqm

[radarhere]

After installing libraqm, did you uninstall and then re-install Pillow?

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After installing libraqm, did you uninstall and then re-install Pillow?

yea I have tried that too

[radarhere]

When you say that you 'ran the test on there', are you referring to a specific test, or do you just mean this code that you're trying to execute?

I presume that the following code won't print True.

from PIL import features
print(features.check_feature('raqm'))

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No that comes back with False I have ran the test on libraqm run/usr/lib/libraqm/tests/runtest.py

[radarhere]

If you're saying that raqm.h is at /usr/bin/lib/raqm.h, then would you mind uninstalling Pillow, and then running this command, so that Pillow is looking there when it installs?

pip3.6 install --upgrade Pillow --global-option="build_ext" --global-option="-I/usr/bin/lib"

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so I did search for that file and I only found it in those locations is okay does that mean i should be changing this --global-option="-I/usr/bin/lib" to --global-option="-I/usr/local/include/" or --global-option="-I/usr/lib/libraqm/src/"
/usr/lib/libraqm/src/raqm.h
/usr/local/include/raqm.h

[radarhere]

I would try pip3.6 install --upgrade Pillow --global-option="build_ext" --global-option="-I/usr/local/include/", but if that doesn't resolve the problem, you're welcome to try the other. It's just telling Pillow to look for headers in that directory.

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I have tried all three and ran the script again but still doesn't work I just keep getting this

/usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages/pip/_internal/commands/install.py:244: UserWarning: Disabling all use of wheels due to the use of --build-option / --global-option / --install-option.
  cmdoptions.check_install_build_global(options)
Requirement already up-to-date: Pillow in /usr/local/lib/python3.6/dist-packages (7.0.0)

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is it possible that I have installed libraqm in the wrong location? I have installed it in /usr/lib/libraqm/

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okay so I took a different approach by first scrapping ubuntu 16 and getting 18 then installing pip and all the other dependencies I needed including pillow then I cloned the Pilow repo and I first install all the packages needed I have noted it below ran the install raqm bash script in the depends folder

apt-get -y \
    install sudo xvfb \
    git wget python3-numpy python3-scipy netpbm \
    ghostscript libffi-dev libjpeg-turbo-progs \
    python3-setuptools \
    python3-dev cmake  \
    libtiff5-dev libjpeg8-dev libopenjp2-7-dev zlib1g-dev \
    libfreetype6-dev liblcms2-dev libwebp-dev tcl8.6-dev tk8.6-dev \
    python3-tk \
    libharfbuzz-dev libfribidi-dev