title: PIL cuts off top of letters
body: <p>I've spent a lot of time making my first web application using Python, and I'm using <a href="/questions/tagged/pil" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged &#39;pil&#39;" rel="tag">pil</a> for generating images. After reading a lot, I've managed to implement proper text aligning, wrapping, generating files with many extensions etc. </p>
  
  <p>However, all the text generated by PIL is cut off at the top. Here's a sample.</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/4PFay.png" alt="Example of PIL-generated image with text cut off at the top"></p>
  
  <p>It should say <code>ŻÓĆjygpq</code> in a variety of fonts (the font names are on the left).</p>
  
  <p>I've found few posts here: <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1933766/fonts-clipping-with-pil">fonts clipping with PIL</a>, 
  but I'd like to avoid using another module (aggdraw); since I've figured out so many things in PIL already I'd like to stick to that.</p>
  
  <p>I've tried many fonts in different sizes, but text is still cut off. I even tried to use PIL fonts, but it still doesn't work. [Also converting OTF to BDF, and to PIL].</p>
  
  <p>This is on Ubuntu. What should I try next?</p>