It's the .pbm file; put it in the same directory as the .pil file. 
More details here:

http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~edloper/programs/tree2image/install.html

>  hi list,
>  
>  I'm a newbie user of PIL When I try to load a font to draw text I get this 
>  error:
>  
>  font = ImageFont.load ('courB08.pil')
>  Traceback (most recent call last):
>    File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/PIL/ImageFont.py", line 168, in 
>  load
>      f._load_pilfont(filename)
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/PIL/ImageFont.py", line 78, in 
>  _load_pilfont
>      raise IOError("cannot find glyph data file")
>  
>  I dont know what is a 'glyph data file'..I dont know where to start..
>  
>  I'm using Imaging-1.1.4
>  
>  thanks.
>  
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