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gferreira

not sure if we can call it clean but here’s a way to apply formatting to a FormattedString a posteriori using a simple find & replace:

txt = '''Some title here
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Nulla tempus justo in finibus condimentum. Proin vitae mauris ac nibh elementum consectetur. Aenean justo mi, cursus vel placerat vitae, gravida in mi.
'''

def applyFormatting(formattedString, findText, styleDict):

    start = str(formattedString).find(findText)
    end = start + len(findText)
    
    before = formattedString[:start]
    after  = formattedString[end:]

    replaceText = formattedString.copy()
    replaceText.clear()
    replaceText.append(findText, **styleDict)

    return before + replaceText + after

T = FormattedString(txt, fontSize=36, font="Arial")

T = applyFormatting(T, 'Some title here', dict(fontSize=72, font='Times New Roman', paragraphBottomSpacing=20))
T = applyFormatting(T, 'sit amet', dict(font='Arial Bold', fill=(1, 0, 0),))
T = applyFormatting(T, 'condimentum', dict(font='Arial Italic', fill=(0, 1, 0),))

while len(T):
    newPage('A4')
    T = textBox(T, (20, 20, width() - 40, height() - 40))

adding support for markdown or html markup to FormattedString would be super useful!

hope this helps

gferreira

hello @mït,

you can change text properties in the FormattedString, before passing it to textBox.

like this:

T = FormattedString(fontSize=42)
T.font("Arial")
T.append('Lorem ipsum dolor ')

T.font("Arial Bold")
T.append('sit amet, ')

T.font("Arial")
T.append('consectetur adipiscing elit. Nulla tempus justo in finibus ')

T.font("Arial Italic")
T.append('condimentum. ')

T.font("Arial")
T.append('Proin vitae mauris ac nibh elementum consectetur. Aenean justo mi, cursus vel placerat vitae, gravida in mi.')

while len(T):
    newPage('A4')
    T = textBox(T, (10, 10, width() - 20, height() - 20))

hope this helps! cheers

gferreira

hello @traviskochel,

you can use image() inside an ImageObject to get a specific page, and then apply the filters using the image object. like this:

path = 'myFolder/myDocument.pdf'

img = ImageObject()

with img:
    w, h = imageSize(path)
    size(w, h)
    image(path, (0, 0), pageNumber=4)
    
img.falseColor(color0=(1,0,0,1))
image(img, (0, 0))

cheers!

frederik

t = "AVA"

font("Garamond")
fontSize(200)

text(t, (10, 10))

openTypeFeatures(kern=False)
text(t, (10, 200))

frederik

newDrawing() completely reset the drawing stack, as @imik mentioned.

Use newDrawing if you want to generate multiple drawings, or when you are in an environment where the drawing stack is kept in memory and a hard reset of the drawing stack is required.

see the docs: https://www.drawbot.com/content/canvas/pages.html#drawBot.newDrawing

gferreira

hello @eduairet,

you can use the pageNumber argument in image or imageSize to get a given frame in a multipage image (gif or pdf). important: page numbering starts at 1.

see Inserting a PDF

path = '~/Desktop/image.gif'
pageCount = numberOfPages(path)

for pageNumber in range(1, pageCount+1):
    w, h = imageSize(path, pageNumber=pageNumber)
    newPage(w, h)
    image(path, (0, 0), pageNumber=pageNumber)

cheers!