Topics created by ThunderNixon

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?

Until there's a new feature for this, I think you could replace your newPage() calls to a custom newPageWithBleed() that goes something like this, and wouldn't need to change any of your other drawing code — def newPageWithBleed(w, h, bleed): newPage(w + bleed * 2, h + bleed * 2) translate(bleed, bleed) W, H = 400, 400 bleed = 25 newPage(W, H) rect(0, 0, 20, 20) newPageWithBleed(W, H, bleed) rect(0, 0, 20, 20)

Ahh this is a very clear-headed approach. Thanks for showing me how it's done! This is very helpful.

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.

@thundernixon In general, the rule is: if it works in TextEdit.app, we expect it to work in DrawBot. (Except vertical typesetting; that's on our todo list.)

@frederik and @justvanrossum thanks for the thoughtful replies and helpful tips! Command-E and Command-G will be very useful. And yeah, I found that early on that DrawBot does reload pretty nicely, so probably I just need to make better use of that.