I am rather new to python and have a problem with the save function of the of PIL when I want run the following code #!/usr/bin/env python import ImageFont import Image import ImageDraw from PIL import Image img=Image.new("RGB", (200,200),(120,20,20)) draw = ImageDraw.Draw(img) draw.text((0, 0),"This is a test",(255,255,0)) draw = ImageDraw.Draw(img) img.save("test.png") I have this error I don't know why Traceback (most recent call last): File "./ima2.py", line 9, in <module> draw.text((0, 0),"This is a test",(255,255,0)) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/PIL/ImageDraw.py", line 260, in text font = self.getfont() File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/PIL/ImageDraw.py", line 133, in getfont self.font = ImageFont.load_default() File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/PIL/ImageFont.py", line 377, in load_default ''')))) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/PIL/ImageFont.py", line 117, in _load_pilfont_data image.load() File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/PIL/ImageFile.py", line 192, in load d = Image._getdecoder(self.mode, d, a, self.decoderconfig) File "/usr/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/PIL/Image.py", line 381, in _getdecoder raise IOError("decoder %s not available" % decoder_name) IOError: decoder zip not available Continue reading...