How to convert a string to an image?

use ImageDraw.text - but it doesn't do any formating, it just prints string at the given location

img = Image.new('RGB', (200, 100))
d = ImageDraw.Draw(img)
d.text((20, 20), 'Hello', fill=(255, 0, 0))

to find out the text size:

text_width, text_height = d.textsize('Hello')

When creating image, add an aditional argument with the required color (white):
```
img = Image.new('RGB', (200, 100), (255, 255, 255))
```
until you save the image with Image.save method, there would be no file. Then it's only a matter of a proper transformation to put it into your GUI's format for display. This can be done by encoding the image into an in-memory image file:
```
import cStringIO
s = cStringIO.StringIO()
img.save(s, 'png')
in_memory_file = s.getvalue()
```
or if you use python3:
```
import io
s = io.BytesIO()
img.save(s, 'png')
in_memory_file = s.getvalue()
```
this can be then send to GUI. Or you can send direct raw bitmap data:
```
raw_img_data = img.tostring()
```

The first 3 lines are not complete, when I'm not wrong. The correct code would be:

from PIL import Image
from PIL import ImageDraw
from PIL import ImageFont

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