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  SOLVED Place stroke on a shape's contour, with no offset
  stroke clipping outline • • jansindl3r  

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  hello @jansindl3r, you can use the contours of the letters as a clipping mask, so the outside half of the stroke is not visible: size(2000, 1000) stroke(1, 0, 0) strokeWidth(30) B = BezierPath() B.text('a', (110, 130), fontSize=1400) # clip external stroke with savedState(): clipPath(B) drawPath(B) # normal stroke translate(1000, 0) drawPath(B) cheers!
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  SOLVED How to mirror/flip a object?
  transformations • • habakuk  

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  Hallo @jo thanks alot - at the moment i use the lissajus only to create different nice looking loops. I changed the values as you suggested and of course it is working now and delivers a new nice looking loop. I`d love to make some more loops with more "natural, subtle and slow" movements. I saw your great visualisations of the different variable font movements and hoped to create a custom path to do so - but i failed... if you like to play around with my very first 5 letter variable font (HABKU) you are very welcome. http://habaland.ch/images/habaroll8GX.ttf i added the the plus and minus to avoid the font doing the whole move to the min and max, because the backgraound would be visible then. (but most likely i created only a mess ) and by the way, i hate the black circle i had to ad "behind the scene" - id love o have a cleaner solution. ...at the moment i am trying to figure out where to append the savedState() without messing everything up... greetings from Bern
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  UNSOLVED Efficient way to convert all text to outlines in a multi-page doc?
  bezierpath text • • ThunderNixon  

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  mmm, generate an instance with fontTools, use that font with a path and generate the pdf? wondering if the Bad font object... error is also reported with old-style-static-fonts?
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  SOLVED Is there a way to build "bleed" into a file, for printing?
  layout • • ThunderNixon  

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  Until there's a new feature for this, I think you could replace your newPage() calls to a custom newPageWithBleed() that goes something like this, and wouldn't need to change any of your other drawing code — def newPageWithBleed(w, h, bleed): newPage(w + bleed * 2, h + bleed * 2) translate(bleed, bleed) W, H = 400, 400 bleed = 25 newPage(W, H) rect(0, 0, 20, 20) newPageWithBleed(W, H, bleed) rect(0, 0, 20, 20)
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  UNSOLVED Using arcTo() for variable-radius corner-rounding
  trigonometry • • MauriceMeilleur  

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  SOLVED How do I size an image with the ImageObject (or without)?
  image transformations • • ThunderNixon  

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  Ahh this is a very clear-headed approach. Thanks for showing me how it's done! This is very helpful.
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  UNSOLVED Vector/BezierPath distortion methods?
  bezierpath recreations transformations • • MauriceMeilleur  

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  I suspect there's a way to do it by somehow drawing the straight lines in the glyphs as curves and pulling the off-curve points various distances away from being collinear with the on-curve points, in one direction or another, as I change the position of those on-curve points. But, I still struggle to figure out how to tell which are which, in a list of a curve's points, or to write a set of on-curve and off-curve points to a curve to create a shape on purpose—I know what quadratic and cubic curves are, but the order/syntax of the points in the path escapes me. So it may be a long while before I figure anything out …
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  UNSOLVED Random Lines with no intersection
  randomness • • mrrouge  

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  @mrrouge ok if i got you right you want the function to return a value — in your case the height of the legs. this value could then be used in a while loop. while loops are quite helpful but might run forever if done incorrect. I adapted the code a bit so the legs function returns the length of the legs which is then added to the y value in the while loop. There is a check inside the while loop so it will run for a maximum of 3000 times. # ------------- # settings pw = ph = 500 amount_x = 10 cell_w = pw / amount_x max_h = 50 gap = max_h * .2 # ------------- # fucntion(s) def legs(pos, max_w, max_h): x, y = pos length = random() * max_h step_s = random() * max_w polygon((x - step_s, y) , (x, y + length), (x + step_s, y), close = False) return length # ------------- # drawings newPage(pw, ph) fill(None) stroke(0) strokeWidth(2) for x in range(amount_x): count = 0 y = -random() * max_h while y < ph: y += legs((x * cell_w + cell_w/2, y), cell_w/2, max_h) y += gap count += 1 if count > 3000: break and the while loop without the check: for x in range(amount_x): y = -random() * max_h while y < ph: y += legs((x * cell_w + cell_w/2, y), cell_w/2, max_h) y += gap
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  SOLVED Overlapping paths
  bezierpath remove overlap • • MauriceMeilleur  

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  I can't say for sure, but just thinking about the editing I'd been doing when I ran into the problem, open paths would be the more likely explanation. Anyway, it's working now—time to move on to new problems.
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  SOLVED determine centerpoint in irregular rectangle / create "composition"
  geometry • • mrrouge  

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  thanks @}->--
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  SOLVED Hi can somebody help me randomize shapes within a loop ?
  randomness • • mrrouge  

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  Cool thanks for your help ! Iam really struggling to find the right information in the reference
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  SOLVED Update font family in FormattedString
  text • • ThunderNixon  

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  Setting a font in a formatted string will only be used for text appended afterwards: txt.font(...) will not alter the font attribute for existing texts in the formatted string. For each page you will need to create a fresh formatted string.
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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
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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!