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?

made an issue see: https://github.com/typemytype/drawbot/issues/287

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open support for bleed #287

I think you can go far with fake straight lines where the anchors points are on 1/3 of the line length and a meshed grid. This will not be as accurate as a the image transformation.

Illustrator has a mesh tool, so it must possible to transform any vector. And there will be python libraries or even numpy able to do this...

Looking forward to your progress!

you'll need to draw the path on a distorted "grid"

like this one

what is the OS?

Could you also send over the crash report?

thanks

The kitten example is not the url to the actual image data.

The url to an image needs to be a direct link to the image data, no html, no javascript.

good luck!

A wild guess: if you have twice the same outline on top of each other, it is possible a remove overlap can freak out

Wild guess 2: you had some open paths, which are removed by a remove overlap

He David

you need to call randint in side the for loop to get a random number each time, instead you asked for a randint once! at the beginning and you are reusing that number

for i in range(10):
    print(randint(-1000, 1000))

good luck!

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

typemytype created this issue in typemytype/drawbot

closed svg fallback fonts #274

typemytype created this issue in typemytype/drawbot

closed embed installed fonts in a svg context #23