could elaborate why a viewBox is necessary? and how it relates to width, height DrawBot is using.

(maybe this discussion must move to an github issue)

you can draw any string / formattedString into a bezierPath with bezierPath.text and bezierPath.textBox

see http://www.drawbot.com/content/shapes/bezierPath.html#drawBot.context.baseContext.BezierPath.text

for the rest of your questions, Im missing some source data, to get you a proper answer. As type has no fill color, your grey values must come from somewhere else.

A dedicated Maurice-category would be good plan, only if you build a Maurice-bot that answers directly

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

• Adding bezierPath.expandStroke(width, lineCap="round", lineJoin="round", miterLimit=10) (thanks to Bahman Eslami)

• Improved internal OpenType feature tags setting

• Improved complex formattedString type setting

• Improved alignment with text() and FormattedString

• Added a DrawBot frontend for pip/PyPI to make it super easy to install third-party packages: see menu Python -> Install Python Packages...

  

• Fixed text stroke behavior (but is a breaking change): strokeWidth on text no longer scales with the fontSize

• Removed support for .mov export on 10.15 and up (QTKit is no longer supported there)

• Fixed extracting single frames from .gif files

• Improved setup.py, so drawbot-as-a-module can be easily installed with pip using a github URL

• All test now run on Travis CI (and soon also on GitHub Actions)

• Removed Python 2 code

• Many small issues were fixed

DrawBot uninstalls the font after the script is done, so its only accessible during run time of the script.

There are some issues when reinstalling a font in the app itself where the postscript name is the still the same.

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

see the release notes: https://forum.drawbot.com/topic/203/drawbot3-121-is-released

numpy is not embedded into DrawBot and the latest DrawBot is python 3.7 and it can only add local packages installed with the same python version.

If you want to use numpy you need to install 3.7, get it here https://www.python.org/downloads/ and install numpy locally

good luck!

get a pre-release version here http://static.typemytype.com/drawBot/DrawBot10.15.dmg

see the pull request on github to see the changes and follow up the discussion

follow up here https://github.com/typemytype/drawbot/pull/307

typemytype created this issue in typemytype/drawbot

closed CTFeatureOpenTypeTag #307

CTFeatureSelectorIdentifier is not available anymore on 10.15, let me check