asset converter and fonts

[madivad]

I'm trying to create a font asset but can't get my head around this asset converter. I'm on OSX Mavericks, I have python 2.7.5 installed. I installed PIL using easy_install, as with gameduino2.

I just pulled out a font from my system but I get the following error:

$ gd2asset /Users/Dave/Documents/xCode/tiles02/tiles02/Action_Man.ttf
Traceback (most recent call last):
 File "/usr/local/bin/gd2asset", line 5, in <module>
   pkg_resources.run_script('gameduino2==0.1.2', 'gd2asset')
 File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python/pkg_resources.py", line 489, in run_script
   self.require(requires)[0].run_script(script_name, ns)
 File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/Extras/lib/python/pkg_resources.py", line 1214, in run_script
   exec script_code in namespace, namespace
 File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/gameduino2-0.1.2-py2.7.egg/EGG-INFO/scripts/gd2asset", line 121, in <module>
   
 File "build/bdist.macosx-10.9-intel/egg/gameduino2/prep.py", line 426, in make
 File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/gameduino2-0.1.2-py2.7.egg/EGG-INFO/scripts/gd2asset", line 92, in addall
   
 File "/Library/Python/2.7/site-packages/gameduino2-0.1.2-py2.7.egg/EGG-INFO/scripts/gd2asset", line 46, in ttf
   
 File "build/bdist.macosx-10.9-intel/egg/gameduino2/prep.py", line 286, in load_ttf
 File "build/bdist.macosx-10.9-intel/egg/gameduino2/prep.py", line 258, in load_font
OverflowError: unsigned byte integer is less than minimum

I'd be appreciative if someone could give me a hand to debug this problem. 

[madivad]

Can anyone give me any pointers on how to get the asset converter working on OSX?

Alternatively, what ELSE could I do to a TTF to get displaying on the GD2?

[yunfei]

I am a windows 7 user and I am suffering from the problem that I totally cannot install ez_install and asset convert on my computer. I have both py3.3 and py2.7 installed. Looking for help as well.

[mathiasw]

Salut,
here are the steps that worked well on my PC:
- I installed Python2.7.6 using the msi package (http://www.python.org/ftp/python/2.7.6/python-2.7.6.msi)
- I installed easy_install using the setup script (https://bitbucket.org/pypa/setuptools/raw/bootstrap/ez_setup.py downloaded to c:\test\ez_setup.py using the command
> c:\Python27\python.exe c:\test\ez_setup.py
- I installed the Python Image Library using the executable (http://effbot.org/downloads/PIL-1.1.7.win32-py2.7.exe)
- and finally I executed easy_install -U gameduino2

Can you tell me which of the steps above did not work?
Ciao, Mathias