Hello @gferreira, Thanks for the quick reply. I mistakenly thought vanilla just ment that it didn't have any 'addons'. Like vanilla JS... This makes a lot more sense, will look into that! Thanks a lot!

Thanks Frederik, that solved the issue. JD

@gferreira wow, this is huge!!! thank you again

@jansindl3r yes, have a look at BezierPath.pointInside(xy)

there’s an example of FlattePen + BezierPath here

continue here https://github.com/typemytype/drawbot/issues/301 thanks!

hello @KevinKarney, welcome to DrawBot! 1. I need the option to build compound objects (with unions, differences, intersections). Is it possible to make (e.g) a torus by differencing 2 circles. Or do I have to create two bezier paths and then do the difference. both methods are possible: you can do it with a single BezierPath by drawing two circles in opposing directions: x, y = 500, 500 r1 = 400 r2 = 300 B = BezierPath() B.oval(x-r1, y-r1, r1*2, r1*2) B.reverse() B.oval(x-r2, y-r2, r2*2, r2*2) fill(0, 1, 0) stroke(1, 0, 0) strokeWidth(10) drawPath(B) or you can draw two separate circles, and get the difference between them: B1 = BezierPath() B1.oval(x-r1, y-r1, r1*2, r1*2) B2 = BezierPath() B2.oval(x-r2, y-r2, r2*2, r2*2) B3 = B1.difference(B2) drawPath(B3) 2. with primitives such as oval or rect, can I incorporate the fill, stroke, strokewidth, etc into the call. In Nodebox 1, I can say (e.g) a = rect(0,0,20,20,stroke=Red,strokewidth=3,fill=Grey, draw=False) This creates an object call a, but does not draw it.... grouping colors and geometry can be done with functions: def a(): stroke(1, 0, 0) strokeWidth(3) fill(0.5) rect(0, 0, 20, 20) a() hope this helps… have fun with the movies, and let us know if you have any other questions.

@gferreira thanks, it worked, I'm coming with some new exercises. Cheers.

hello @burnier & everyone else with the same problem, the latest version of Python is 3.7 DrawBot currently embeds Python 3.6 if you recently installed “Python 3” from python.org, you probably have 3.7. to make modules available in DrawBot, they need to be installed for Python 3.6 (not 3.7). so, the first step is to make sure that you have Python 3.6 installed in your system. you can check that by typing python3.6 in Terminal. if you get -bash: python3.6: command not found, then you need to install Python 3.6 first. you can get it from python.org/downloads. pip is included in Python, so once you have Python 3.6 you should have pip3.6 too. please give it a try, and let us know how it goes… good luck!

@gferreira I also believe that you meant textSize('string')

mm strange, can you send an example script that fails with this traceback A wild guess is that the drawBot package is not installed. Did you do this last step (next to installing all the dependencies) cd path/To/drawBot pytho3.7 setup.py install

hello @jansindl3r, you can use the contours of the letters as a clipping mask, so the outside half of the stroke is not visible: size(2000, 1000) stroke(1, 0, 0) strokeWidth(30) B = BezierPath() B.text('a', (110, 130), fontSize=1400) # clip external stroke with savedState(): clipPath(B) drawPath(B) # normal stroke translate(1000, 0) drawPath(B) cheers!

@gferreira said in Grid: w = (width() - gutter * (cols + 1)) / cols h = (height() - gutter * (rows + 1)) / rows Thank you very much, it worked way much better, I also tried to add a margin feature that worked well so now I can design over the grid size(1000, 1000) cols = 3 rows = 3 gutter = 12 #Margin mTop = 10 - gutter mBottom = 20 - gutter mLeft = 10 - gutter mRight = 10 - gutter w = (width() - gutter * (cols + 1)) / cols - ((mRight + mLeft) / cols) h = (height() - gutter * (rows + 1)) / rows - ((mTop + mBottom) / rows) fill(None) strokeWidth(1) stroke(0, 1, 1) for col in range(cols): for row in range(rows): x = gutter + col * (w + gutter) y = gutter + row * (h + gutter) rect(x + mLeft, y + mBottom, w, h)

Hallo @jo thanks alot - at the moment i use the lissajus only to create different nice looking loops. I changed the values as you suggested and of course it is working now and delivers a new nice looking loop. I`d love to make some more loops with more "natural, subtle and slow" movements. I saw your great visualisations of the different variable font movements and hoped to create a custom path to do so - but i failed... if you like to play around with my very first 5 letter variable font (HABKU) you are very welcome. http://habaland.ch/images/habaroll8GX.ttf i added the the plus and minus to avoid the font doing the whole move to the min and max, because the backgraound would be visible then. (but most likely i created only a mess ) and by the way, i hate the black circle i had to ad "behind the scene" - id love o have a cleaner solution. ...at the moment i am trying to figure out where to append the savedState() without messing everything up... greetings from Bern

mmm, generate an instance with fontTools, use that font with a path and generate the pdf? wondering if the Bad font object... error is also reported with old-style-static-fonts?

Until there's a new feature for this, I think you could replace your newPage() calls to a custom newPageWithBleed() that goes something like this, and wouldn't need to change any of your other drawing code — def newPageWithBleed(w, h, bleed): newPage(w + bleed * 2, h + bleed * 2) translate(bleed, bleed) W, H = 400, 400 bleed = 25 newPage(W, H) rect(0, 0, 20, 20) newPageWithBleed(W, H, bleed) rect(0, 0, 20, 20)

Ahh this is a very clear-headed approach. Thanks for showing me how it's done! This is very helpful.