@frederik ah, that is super helpful! How did I miss this great feature? Thanks again

yes you can! in the DrawBot code base test we use: rect(10, 10, 100, 100) pilObject = saveImage("PIL") you need to have PIL installed yourself (the drawBot forum is almost closed, I keep it as read only, to much spam, sorry, move to drawBot channel in the RoboFont discord)

You are correct, I should have looked better. I don’t know if there exist these kind of filters for DrawBot (I assume you mean something like Illustrator’s Pathfinder tool). I did some reading on the underlying NSBezierPath, which has an even-odd winding rule, but I'm not smart enough to figure out if that's useable, let alone how.

Nice! Thanks for sharing the result.

In case anyone's following this thread: over on RoboFont's Discord, thanks to Wim asking we determined that the issue had mainly to do with a bug in a pre-release version of DB I was using; using v3.130 cleared things up.

on the end I did my own UI and it worked fantastic, thanks for the great work!

You could create an imageObject of the background, but I believe you get pixels instead of outlines. Maybe you can create the whole background in one BezierPath? I’m not sure, but it seems possible to append multiple paths to one BezierPath.

The thing that tripped me up initially was ‘Returns a single-pixel image…’. I was (mis)reading that and assumed that ‘returns’ meant ‘returns a new image’ instead of altering the imageObject. I’m not sure if the documentation is a little confusing, or that the behaviour of areaAverage is unexpected.

Thanks so much! That worked. It does seem like for some drawings it helps if I set a different starting point for the contour but this is perfect for my needs. Thanks again, I really appreciate it.

mmm see https://github.com/typemytype/drawbot/issues/391 open an issue to discus it further thanks

I hadn't thought about this solution! Thanks, @frederik! newPage("A4Landscape") box_w, box_h = width()-100, height()-100 box_x, box_y = 50, 50 txt = FormattedString() txt.fontSize(90) txt.align("center") txt.append("LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG STRING\n"*30) txt_w = textSize(txt)[0] txt_h = textSize(txt)[1] width_ratio = box_w/txt_w height_ratio = box_h/txt_h sf = min(width_ratio , height_ratio, 1) scale(sf) textBox(txt, (box_x/sf, box_y/sf, box_w/sf, box_h/sf))

you can not copy that file while the app is open, that pref file is always written when the app closes and will not sync when you adjust it

DrawBot has not such a feature... however you can install DrawBot as a module and use it externally building the pdf and previewing it elsewhere let use know if you find a solution!

tried it a long time ago... didnt got it to work for some reason, so support for trim and bleed is set on hold: https://github.com/typemytype/drawbot/pull/304 if you got any idea to get it to work with quartz pdf context, let me know

hehe, totally forgot about that one... but I prefer the solution with pyqrcode as it provides a list 0/1

oké I had some small hope but thanks for testing and clarifying! not very elegant but kind of working: txt = 'Some Text\nwith new lines\rIs a return\na new line\ror a new paragraph?' paras = [[l + '\n' for l in p.split('\n')] for p in txt.split('\r')] newPage(150, 150) fstr = FormattedString() for para in paras: for l in para: extra_space = 5 if l == para[-1] else 0 fstr.append(l, paragraphBottomSpacing = extra_space) text(fstr, (20, 110))

thanks for the issue --> https://github.com/typemytype/drawbot/issues/495