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  SOLVED Are there any tutorials on how to build Drawbot python files via Sublime?
  drawbot as module • • MishaHeesakkers  

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  @MishaHeesakkers animated gifs can be viewed with a browser. see this example
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  SOLVED Masking
  clipping • • brintown  

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  thanks @frederik and @gferreira for the helpful hints!
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  SOLVED Typographic white space?
  text • • micahmicah  

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  @frederik wonderful! Thank you!
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  SOLVED while()
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  see also http://pythonfordesigners.com/how-to-keep-doing-things-until-you-need-to/ http://robofont.com/documentation/building-tools/python/collections-loops/#while-loops
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  SOLVED change number to count number 1, 2 or 3
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  @pixelman you can add a counter to the inner loop using enumerate: for n, words in enumerate([words1, words2, words3], start=1): if i < len(words): resultWords.append('-'+ str(n) +'-'+ words[i])
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  SOLVED Add fontVariation to text drawn in bezierPath?
  bezierpath variable fonts • • snaders  

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  super! really cool project!
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  SOLVED Making a book
  animation book • • Patricia  

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  @gferreira Thanks so much!
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  SOLVED arcTo documentation?
  bezierpath • • MauriceMeilleur  

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  see https://github.com/typemytype/drawbot/commit/d989e8bd0db35489d3eaeca453366d70a8877a1e 0 typemytype committed to typemytype/drawbot improve documentation
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  SOLVED Detect if a module is imported from a DrawBot script?
  modules drawbot as module • • jens  

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  DrawBot could be installed as module, so the import could be available. check: import AppKit appName = AppKit.NSBundle.mainBundle().infoDictionary().get("CFBundleDisplayName") print(appName) appName will be DrawBot, RoboFont or None (in terminal) good luck!
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  SOLVED Draw a letter within a viewbox
  bezierpath transformations • • snaders  

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  @frederik Thanks. Will have a look which type gives the best result. To use the actual font sounds like a good choice though. In Processing (where I made this animation first) I used SVG, but mainly because it's almost impossible to work with type in Processing. Curious which one is faster also.
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  UNSOLVED How to load and draw SVG files?
  svg • • snaders  

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  @snaders in DrawBot you don’t really resize an image, you change the scale at which it is drawn. (same logic as in Draw a letter within a viewbox) imgPath = 'https://i.ytimg.com/vi/oHg5SJYRHA0/hqdefault.jpg' # get image width & height imgWidth, imgHeight = imageSize(imgPath) # define box width & height boxWidth, boxHeight = 640, 640 # calculate scaling factors factorHeight = boxHeight / imgHeight factorWidth = boxWidth / imgWidth # draw scaled image with savedState(): scale(factorWidth, factorHeight) image(imgPath, (0, 0)) # draw box fill(None) stroke(1, 0, 0) strokeWidth(5) rect(0, 0, boxWidth, boxHeight)
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  UNSOLVED Installing Packages
  modules • • RafalBuchner  

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  @jo Yes, right now I'm working like that, but I would try to avoid this solution in particular, since I consider it as not Pythonic and "proper"
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  SOLVED Drawing glyphs from ufo file.
  bezierpath pens ufo • • RafalBuchner  

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  Delayed, but still: thanks guys !!!
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  UNSOLVED Code crashing when using multiprocessing.Pool
  drawbot as module performance • • Tim  

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  @frederik Sorry for the late reply, I've been on vacation for a while. It's a little rusty after so many days The main focus lays on "main_pool()" "multiprocessing.Pool()" creates, in my 8core case, 8 separate processes (ignore the -1 in the code) Then "p.map()" runs function "run()" 120 times (12 fps times 10 sec. from the settings) but only 8 at one time. As soon as one process is finished it runs the next one. it saves the images separately and can be stitched together into one gif with "exportGif()" More in depth info can be found on: https://docs.python.org/3.4/library/multiprocessing.html My example is only useful if the processes don't have to talk to each other. But on the ref page above should be other examples as well. I'll post the result of my script in a few hours. Well the result in which I've used this method.
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  SOLVED Can't import geocoder
  modules • • agyei  

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  I figured out the problem: I was using the wrong version of Python when installing the package. Just so this isn't useless, I used this to help me check if the module was installed and accessible in Drawbot: help("modules")
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  SOLVED How to get image DPI?
  image object resolution • • dyb  

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  good question in drawBot there is not a api for this. I could consider imageResoltion(path) returning the dpi opening an issue: https://github.com/typemytype/drawbot/issues/215 typemytype created this issue in typemytype/drawbot closed [proposal] add imageResolution(path) #215
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  SOLVED Generate animated .gifs, .pdfs similar to generateMP4()?
  animation animated gif • • MauriceMeilleur  

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  not really... but this is not so hard with a PDFDocument
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  SOLVED A deeper bevel on lineJoin()?
  recreations trigonometry stroke outline • • MauriceMeilleur  

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  The last thing will be to provide for the case where the points are in a continuous chain, like the <o>. I'm pretty sure I know what to do, and it shouldn't be that hard, but I have some other problems with the Crouwel code to fix first (all to do with graphing and finding valid paths—this whole project is forcing me to teach myself the basics of computer science as I go). I'll post the revised and extended code here when it's done.
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  SOLVED lines - open path intersection with paths
  bezierpath pens • • sinanatra  

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  @sinanatra MarginPen used to live in roboFab.pens. with the retirement of roboFab, some pens were moved to a new library called fontPens. RoboFab vs. FontParts APIs: Pens Pen objects Using pens