continue here: https://github.com/typemytype/drawbot/issues/347

But that means that default linespacing = fontSize + 1? not really… it depends on the vertical metrics in the font. here’s a test with other fonts: from random import choice fontName = choice(installedFonts()) txt = FormattedString() txt.append('a', fontSize=1000, font=fontName) print(fontName) print(textSize(txt)[1]) line height is tricky see 1 2 3 4

That's a nice workaround, thanks! I didn't consider the resolution parameter since I was thinking in terms of the absolute size of the image in pixels only. Maybe I'll put in a feature request, since pixel dimensions feels like a more intuitive way to characterize output.

Thanks Frederik! I think I've managed to have what I wanted to. Thanks a lot for bringing the whole problem to a more easy approach.

Thanks @gferreira I tried different ways to calculate the positioning of the first line in the textBox (looking for a magical match between the verticals metrics, lineHeight(), text size…) and I can never find a solution that works systematically from one font to another…

Hey @frederik Thank you very much for your reply. I did some quick tests with the code you provided but it seems I have not achieved any positive result in saving the pages with the provided color profile data. The results were always GenericRGB for TIFF, JPG and PNG regardless of me also using some other ICC files. dataWithContentsOfFile_ returns an objective-c class NSConcreteData with the data represented as b'…' in it, what I guess is right and what imageColorSyncProfileData needs. Anyway, thanks again for your help.

Thank you so much again, Gustavo!

There may be useful code here: https://github.com/LettError/coverage

I should've tried that myself. Thank you!

@gferreira said in Import python file.: but unless you are importing code Clear. I will look into JSON then. I only load some settings for size and speed and such. Thanks again.

@frederik But I figured it out! Obviously the fill/stroke properties from the formatted strings won't find their way into the Bezier paths, but I can just add them to the paths directly. (I guess I could just use text, but I want some flexibility in the code for when Kast is a variable font.) Just have to write the code to clean/chop up strings into even lines and size the text to position/size the lines to make fields. A really useful Maurice-bot would tell me to do the work first and then post just to share the results and the code.

The finished product, a tribute to Bridget Riley's Rustle 6 (2015). import math canvasX = 600 canvasY = 600 nFrames = 120 side = canvasX/14 height = (side * sqrt(3))/2 center = (side/sqrt(3))/2 nX = 14 nY = 15 offsetX = side offsetY = height from datetime import * time = datetime.now() def interpolate(pt1, pt2, ratio): assert ratio <= 1 return (pt1[0] + (ratio * (pt2[0] - pt1[0])), pt1[1] + (ratio * (pt2[1] - pt1[1]))) def triangle(s, h, c, inout): assert inout >= 0 and inout <= 1 start = (-s/2, h/2) pivot = (0, h/2 - (c * 3)) target = (s/2, h/2) control = interpolate((s/2, -c/2), (0, h/2 - c), inout) radius = s # optimal distance to control points is (4/3)*tan(pi/(2n); thank you https://stackoverflow.com/users/16673/suma for answering this question https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1734745/how-to-create-circle-with-b%C3%A9zier-curves control_ratio = ((4/3 * tan(pi/12)) * radius) / (2 * c) controlP = interpolate(pivot, control, control_ratio) controlT = interpolate(target, control, control_ratio) triangle = BezierPath() triangle.moveTo(start) triangle.lineTo(pivot) triangle.curveTo(controlP, controlT, target) triangle.closePath() drawPath(triangle) def frame(x, y, m): f = BezierPath() g = BezierPath() f.rect(0, 0, x, y) g.rect(m, m, x - (2 * m), y - (2 * m)) f = f.difference(g) f.closePath() drawPath(f) # original Riley plan for Rustle 6 plan = [ [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, -1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0], [-1, 0, -1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, -1, 0, 0], [1, 0, 1, -1, 0, 0, -1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0], [0, -1, 0, -1, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, -1, 0, -1, 0], [0, 1, -1, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, -1, 1, 0, 0], [-1, 0, -1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, -1, 0, -1], [1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0], [0, -1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, -1, 0, -1, 0], [0, -1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, -1, 0], [-1, 0, -1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, -1, -1, -1], [-1, 0, -1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1, -1, -1, 0], [0, -1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, -1, 0, -1, -1, 0], [0, 0, 0, -1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, -1, 0, 0], [0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0], ] for n in range(nFrames): newPage(canvasX, canvasY) frameDuration(1/30) ex = sin(radians(n * (360/nFrames))) fill(1) rect(0, 0, canvasX, canvasY) with savedState(): translate(canvasX/2, canvasY/2) fill(0) translate(-(nX - 1) * offsetX/2, (nY - 1) * offsetY/2) for i in range(nY): with savedState(): translate(0, i * -offsetY) if i % 2 == 0: for j in range(nX - 1): with savedState(): translate(offsetX/2 + (j * offsetX), 0) triangle(side, height, center, .5 - (ex * (plan[i][j] * .5))) else: for j in range(nX): with savedState(): translate(j * offsetX, 0) triangle(side, height, center, .5 - (ex * (plan[i][j] * .5))) fill(1) frame(canvasX, canvasY, side/2) saveImage('~/Desktop/riley_tribute_test_01_%s.gif' %time) The reference image:

@gferreira i didn't know you could specifiy path inside font() command. thank you -- this is exactly what i needed!

import string import random # path to the image path = u"https://yourimage.jpg" # get the size of the image print(imageSize("https://yourimage.jpg")) # w, h = imageSize(path) s = letter size w = 400 h = 400 s = 10 # Set the characters you need chars = 'HOLAhola' print (random.choice(chars)) # Get colors pix_cols = {} for x in range(0, w, s): for y in range(0, h, s): pix_cols[(x, y)] = imagePixelColor(path, (x, y)) # Variable font to use """ FontName wdth {'name': 'Width', 'minValue': 100.0, 'maxValue': 800.0, 'defaultValue': 100.0} wght {'name': 'Weight', 'minValue': 150.0, 'maxValue': 800.0, 'defaultValue': 150.0} slnt {'name': 'Slant', 'minValue': 0.0, 'maxValue': 14.0, 'defaultValue': 0.0} """ min_val_wdth = listFontVariations('FontName')['wdth']['minValue'] max_val_wdth = listFontVariations('FontName')['wdth']['maxValue'] min_val_wght = listFontVariations('FontName')['wght']['minValue'] max_val_wght = listFontVariations('FontName')['wght']['maxValue'] min_val_slnt = listFontVariations('FontName')['slnt']['minValue'] max_val_slnt = listFontVariations('FontName')['slnt']['maxValue'] def ranLetters(): # loop over the width of the image newPage(w, h) fill(1) rect(0, 0, w, h) for x in range(0, w, s): # loop of the height of the image for y in range(0, h, s): color = pix_cols[(x, y)] if color: txt = random.choice(chars) font("FontName") fontSize(s) fontVariations(wdth = randint(min_val_wdth, max_val_wdth), wght = randint(min_val_wght, max_val_wght)) r, g, b, a = color # set the color fill(r, g, b, a) # draw some text text(txt, (x, y), align='center') for i in range(5): ranLetters() saveImage("~/Desktop/name.gif", imageResolution=144)

Dear @gferreira, I tried to use your suggestion it in my exercise and it worked fine. Thank you so much for your help! Amazing. Thank you and kind regards, Petra

@gferreira Thank you, that's very helpful !

This has been fixed upstream. Will try to built a fresh release after the weekend