Hello, @gferreira! I had thought about working word for word ... I didn’t know if it was a good idea ... but it’s really interesting what you coded! I wouldn't have found it alone! thanks! I guess this way the text would never be justified ... but it will be very useful for me! thanks!

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

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…

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

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?

Setting a font in a formatted string will only be used for text appended afterwards: txt.font(...) will not alter the font attribute for existing texts in the formatted string. For each page you will need to create a fresh formatted string.

further discussion here https://github.com/typemytype/drawbot/issues/274 also read why we dont allow embedding fonts: https://github.com/typemytype/drawbot/issues/23

Hello, Once again, thank you for being so helpful. Enjoy the day. Best. Robert

@frederik wonderful! Thank you!

Hey gferreira, thankx we try to test it out tomorrow… many thanks!