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never used tkinter... DrawBot itself is made with `vanilla a pythonic wrapper around pyobjc.

vanilla has all the dialogs you'll need!

import vanilla

result = vanilla.dialogs.getFileOrFolder()
print(result)

import vanilla
help(vanilla.dialogs)

An ImageObject as support to generate barcodes.

fe: https://drawbot.com/content/image/imageObject.html#drawBot.context.tools.imageObject.ImageObject.code128BarcodeGenerator

im = ImageObject()

im.code128BarcodeGenerator((170, 32), message=b"hello world", quietSpace=0)
image(im, (10, 10))

Im making an issue to have the size argument optional.

scale the canvas based on the dimension of your destination rectangle:

# set a width height
w, h = 396, 244
# create a formattedString
txt = FormattedString()
# set a font
txt.font("Times")
# add some text
txt += "kweti"

#move it a bit
translate(100, 100)
# draw the black stroked rect
fill(None)
stroke(0)
rect(0, 0, w, h)

# create a path object
path = BezierPath()
# draw text into the path
path.text(txt)
# get the bounds of the path
minx, miny, maxx, maxy = path.bounds()
# get a scale value based on the bounding box
scaleX = w / (maxx - minx)
scaleY = h / (maxy - miny)
# pick the smallest one and shift up to the middle in the other direction
if scaleX < scaleY:
    scale(scaleX)
    shift = (h / scaleX - (maxy - miny)) / 2
    translate(0, shift)
else:
    scale(scaleY)
    shift = (w / scaleY - (maxx - minx)) / 2
    translate(shift, 0)
# translate witht the offset
translate(-minx, -miny)
# draw as text
text(txt, (0, 0))

frederik at typemytype.com should do it

mm, strange, could you share your font? (offline only with me or a simplified dummy example)

thanks

works also fine on Big Sur (11.4)

what is your OS version?

this simplified example works... on 10.13

translate(50, 50)

font('SourceSerif4Variable-Roman.ttf')
fontSize(76)
fontVariations(opsz=8)
text("hello world", (0, 0))

fontVariations(opsz=60)
text("hello world", (0, 80))

cool hack, Gustavo

Looking at a way to disable the automatic optical size scaling.

hello @craig,

it looks like variable optical sizes are selected automatically based on the point size. you can then use scale() to make text bigger or smaller:

ttfPath = 'SourceSerif4Variable-Roman.ttf'
txt = 'Handgloves'

font(ttfPath)
translate(20, 100)

with savedState():
    scale(40)
    fontSize(6)
    text(txt, (0, 0))

translate(0, 300)
with savedState():
    scale(13)
    fontSize(19)
    text(txt, (0, 0))

translate(0, 300)
with savedState():
    scale(4)
    fontSize(72)
    text(txt, (0, 0))

hope this helps! cheers

he Szymon!

a bezierPath object is not made to be editable. One way could be jumpt to a glyph object.

or do a detour by cutting the path in four quarters and draw them seperatly

# create a bezierPath
path = BezierPath()
# add text to the path with a font and fontSize
path.text("P", font="Helvetica-Bold", fontSize=778)
# move the page a bit
translate(100, 100)
# get the bounds of the path
minx, miny, maxx, maxy = path.bounds()
# calculate the width, height of the bounds
# we only need half the width, height
w = (maxx-minx) * .5
h = (maxy-miny) * .5
# create a bezierPath and add a quarter
bottomLeft = BezierPath()
bottomLeft.rect(minx, miny, w, h)
# create a bezierPath and add a quarter
bottomRight = BezierPath()
bottomRight.rect(minx + w, miny, w, h)
# create a bezierPath and add a quarter
topLeft = BezierPath()
topLeft.rect(minx, miny + h, w, h)
# create a bezierPath and add a quarter
topRight = BezierPath()
topRight.rect(minx + w, miny + h, w, h)

# only keep the path when both of the them are filled
bottomLeft = bottomLeft & path
bottomRight = bottomRight & path
topLeft = topLeft & path
topRight = topRight & path
# start drawing
with savedState():
    translate(w, h)
    skew(-30, 0)
    translate(-w, -h)
    fill(1, 0, 0)
    drawPath(bottomLeft)
    fill(1, 1, 0)
    drawPath(bottomRight)
    
fill(0, 1, 0)
drawPath(topLeft)
fill(0, 1, 1)
drawPath(topRight)