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  SOLVED Moving Anchor point of a Primitive to its middle ?
  transformations geometry • • mrrouge  

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  thanks a lot
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  SOLVED Using a virtualenv in Drawbot
  modules drawbot as module • • Maarten Idema  

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  Oh, I've been trapped by a bot it seems Still, my answer may be useful
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  SOLVED which fonts compatible with variations?
  variable fonts • • geancarle  

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  hi. see also v-fonts.com
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  SOLVED Entering Font Properties into Existing Python Code
  animation text • • FutureDays  

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  Hello, Once again, thank you for being so helpful. Enjoy the day. Best. Robert
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  SOLVED Plot objects along a path
  bezierpath • • micahmicah  

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  @gferreira wondrful! Thank you so much!
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  UNSOLVED Create forms in PDF
  • jb  

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  so far there is no support for any kind of forms.
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  SOLVED Animate in Drawbot, without exporting .gif …
  animation • • fooness  

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  While I'm working on an animation I run the script once to save the .gif file to the disk, then I select the file and hit the space bar to open it in Quick Look to preview the animation. I leave this preview window open in the Finder while I continue to work on editing the script in DrawBot — every time the file gets updated with a newly saved .gif it will automatically start previewing the new version. Kind of a strange technique but it works!
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  SOLVED BezierPath: Contours and Segments
  bezierpath • • dyb  

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  I was comparing a different fonts apparently, my bad.The paths are indeed going the right way.
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  SOLVED Changing Squares to Five Point Stars with JVR Code
  animation geometry • • FutureDays  

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  @gferreira Hello gferreira, Thank you so much the reply has been very helpful. I can see that I was thinking too much about modifying all areas of the code instead of changing a small component. Enjoy the day. Best. Robert
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  SOLVED When exporting a large amount of frames is there a possibility to track the duration of this process?
  animation • • MishaHeesakkers  

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  oh, there is indeed no progress callback on saveImage(..) Doing some googling on 'progress' and 'ffmpeg' does not results in a clear solution. DrawBot has a small wrapper around ffmpeg to generate movies: see https://github.com/typemytype/drawbot/blob/master/drawBot/context/tools/mp4Tools.py
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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
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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!