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))

this worked!! Thank you

Sure enough, that seems to have been the problem. A new font file with internal settings for opsz that increase rather than decrease with point size seems to now respond in Drawbot as expected.

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)

Thank you!

Wow thanks a lot for such a fast fix! That is a lifesaver function for glyph proofing

@frederik Got it, thanks. I just knew someday my print()s would come!

use: glyphNames = ["a", "aring", "agrave"] txt = FormattedString() txt.appendGlyph(*glyphNames) textBox(txt, (10, 10, 400, 400)) see https://www.drawbot.com/content/text/formattedString.html#drawBot.context.baseContext.FormattedString.appendGlyph

I guess you are making to complex import re # a list of words to format differently wordsToItalicize = ["italic", "bar"] # your text txt = '''foo bar italic bar foo italic bar foo''' # the default formatting as a reusable dict defaultFormatting = dict( font="Skia", fill=(0, .2, .1, 1) ) # the italic formatting as a reusable dict italicFormatting = dict( font="Times-Italic", fill=(1, 0, 0, 1) ) # compile a regex r = re.compile(f"({'|'.join(wordsToItalicize)})") # start an empty formatted string ftxt = FormattedString() # start loop over all the items with the regex for item in r.split(txt): # choose the correct formatting if item in wordsToItalicize: settings = italicFormatting else: settings = defaultFormatting # append the text in the formatting text ftxt.append(item, **settings) # draw the text textBox(ftxt, (10, 10, 100, 100))

continue here https://github.com/typemytype/drawbot/issues/428

see the python courseware about strings: https://www.drawbot.com/content/courseware.html#strings you can not have the same quote mark inside a string and to indicate a string. print("d'étude") print('d"étude') print('d\'étude') # escaping ' good luck!

I am not quite sure what exactly you are asking but the get a random integer value inside a range you could use randint(min_value, max_value). This works for integers. To get a random value between 100 and 900 you would use randint(100, 900). If you have a smaller range and want fractions as well you could use min_value + random() * (max_value - min_value) eg 100 + (900-100) * random() I hope that helps, good luck!

that is indeed correct see the documentation: https://www.drawbot.com/content/text/formattedString.html#drawBot.context.baseContext.FormattedString.openTypeFeatures (+ I've changed the title of this topic)

Very useful for text proofing (color consistency). And also to make games with ornaments and patterns. Thank you very much!

I dont know glyhps but I would encourage you to use a BezierPath object instead see https://www.drawbot.com/content/shapes/bezierPath.html#drawBot.context.baseContext.BezierPath.translate

thanks @ConnorDav, the width and height of frames must be even numbers. I could happen if you scale up the resolution the width and height becomes odd numbers. Could you post an simplified example causing this traceback? enjoy!

Thanks for your help! I don't know what was wrong in my code, but if yours everything is working !

Thanks Ben!