PDF adding pages to existing file

RicardGarcia

Hello,

I'm currently using Drawbot to generate a character set of the current font. The problem is that when saves the PDF it doesn't generate a new file but it keeps adding pages to an existing PDF in the directory.

I'm not sure how much would help to have the whole script but for now I'm sharing the block of code that I think is causing this problem. I guess it is the way I'm saving the PDF.

# -----------------------------------------------------
# Accessing the directory of the file
fDirectory = os.path.dirname(f.filepath) # Directory
fName = os.path.basename(f.filepath) # Only the name
fNameParts = os.path.splitext(fName) # Split parts
fPath = f.filepath

# -----------------------------------------------------
# Generating a file with the character set 
NewfName = fNameParts[0] + ' - Character set.pdf' # Change extension
NewfPath = os.path.join(fDirectory, NewfName) 

# Saving the .pdf
saveImage(NewfPath)

Thanks beforehand for any help!

gferreira

hello @RicardGarcia,

from the problem description, it sounds like you’re saving the pdf inside a loop, for example after making each page. usually what you want to do instead is create pages with a loop, and then save the pdf at the end outside the loop.

(the snippet you posted is not related to the problem, I think)

hope this helps!

gferreira

ps. see also this character set proof example using the DrawBot extension in RoboFont.

RicardGarcia

Thanks for the answer, @gferreira. I'm actually saving the pdf at the very end of the script outside the loop that creates the pages.

I'm using Drawbot inside Glyphs and, just to test it, I've run the script both using Drawbot as a module (which generates the problem) and running it with the UI inside Glyphs and it works fine.

I still don't fully get what's going on there, do you have any idea? I could share the code if you want.

Thanks again for your help and the link.

frederik

outside the app DrawBot, when using DrawBot as a module, you have to call drawBot.newDrawing() to reset the drawing stack.

see https://www.drawbot.com/content/canvas/pages.html#drawBot.newDrawing

its also adviced to call drawBot.endDrawing() when you are done.

see https://www.drawbot.com/content/canvas/pages.html#drawBot.endDrawing

RicardGarcia

Thanks @frederik! This was what I was missing and now it works just as I expected.

RicardGarcia

Hello again,

I'm again using DrawBot as a module to use it inside Glyphs and, while ths script works inside Drawbot's plugin in Glyphs, it doesn't generate the same output when I'm using it as a script.

I'm using newDrawing() and endDrawing() but still it doesn't work.

Any idea what it could be?

Thanks!