python 字体渲染_在Python中使用给定的字体正确渲染文本并准确检测其边界

This might strike as something very simple, and I too thought it'd be, but it apparently isn't. I must've spent a week trying to make this work, but I for the love of me can't manage to do so.

What I need

I need to render any given string (only containing standard characters) with any given font (handwritten-like) in Python. The font must be loaded from a TTF file. I also need to be able to accurately detect its borders (get the exact start and end position of the text, vertically and horizontally), preferably before drawing it. Lastly, it'd really make my life easier if the output is an array which I can then keep processing, and not an image file written to disc.

What I've tried

Imagemagick bindings (namely Wand): Couldn't figure out how to get the text metrics before setting the image size and rendering the text on it.

Pango via Py