Posts made by frederik

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

I guess you have an other packages installed also called vanilla. Which is not the vanilla required by DrawBot...

A similar issue see: https://github.com/robotools/vanilla/issues/88#issuecomment-464800669

If you use pip to manage your packages, please use the requirements provided by drawbot.

good luck

RafalBuchner created this issue in robotools/vanilla

closed python3 setup install py2app #88

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

typemytype created this issue in typemytype/drawbot

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

there is already a fallbackFont(fontName) see

but no connection with the svg, this would be indeed nice to add, as the fonts are not embedded into the svg.

Embedding of font in svg is not allowed.

yes you can use fontMake or ufo2ft, you just have to install it locally for the python3.6 (this is the embedded python in DrawBot)

If you dont have python3.6 installed, you need to get it from https://www.python.org/downloads/.

and install fontMake and/or ufo2ft with pip3.6 for py3.6

good luck!

ufo2fdk needs some basic font info settings like descender, xHeight, ascender, capHeight, unitsPerEm

# some default example values
font.info.descender=-250
font.info.xHeight=500
font.info.ascender=750
font.info.capHeight=750
font.info.unitsPerEm=1000

Im pushing you to figure it out by yourself first

see the documentation and the source of ufo2fdk

and see documentation of fontMake

font.generate is RoboFont method and is not available inside DrawBot.

However with ufo2fdk (which is embedded into DrawBot) you must be able to generate binaries (you will need to install FDK locally)

or install fontMake and build a compiled font from a ufo.

good luck!!!

so far there is no support for any kind of forms.

A contour object has a contour.clockwise which is a boolean indicating what the direction is. Hope this helps you out.

a segment always represent a line with a single point and a bezier curve with 3 points (2 off curves and one oncurve) this is the behaviour in RoboFab ever since...

A contour object has an attribute contour.open which is a bool indicating a contour should use closePath or endPath for open paths.