Size differences between TrueType and OpenType fonts when using PIL ImageFont

Question

I'm trying to create PNGs of letters from the fonts on my system. Seems to work okay with TrueType fonts (.ttf) but not OpenType (.otf). The images formed are the same size but the actual letters appear much smaller with OpenType - see below.

I'm using the ImageFont module from the Python Imaging library. There doesn't seem to be a way to distinguish between the two formats; both are imported with

ImageFont.truetype(filename, size)

What am I missing?

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example code:

try:
 font = ImageFont.truetype(name, size)
 for text in string.letters:

  size2 = font.getsize(text)

  im = Image.new('RGBA', size2, (0, 0, 0, 0))
  draw = ImageDraw.Draw(im)
  draw.text((0, 0), text, font=font, fill="black")

  if not os.path.exists(name[:-4]):
   os.makedirs(name[:-4])

  if text in string.lowercase:
   im.save(name[:-4]+".png")
  else:
   im.save(name[:-4]+"_u.png")
except:
 pass

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Images of Adobe Caslon and Arial for comparsion.