recordingPen
Pen recording operations that can be accessed or replayed.
- class fontTools.pens.recordingPen.DecomposingRecordingPen(glyphSet)[source]
Same as RecordingPen, except that it doesn’t keep components as references, but draws them decomposed as regular contours.
The constructor takes a single ‘glyphSet’ positional argument, a dictionary of glyph objects (i.e. with a ‘draw’ method) keyed by thir name:
>>> class SimpleGlyph(object): ... def draw(self, pen): ... pen.moveTo((0, 0)) ... pen.curveTo((1, 1), (2, 2), (3, 3)) ... pen.closePath() >>> class CompositeGlyph(object): ... def draw(self, pen): ... pen.addComponent('a', (1, 0, 0, 1, -1, 1)) >>> glyphSet = {'a': SimpleGlyph(), 'b': CompositeGlyph()} >>> for name, glyph in sorted(glyphSet.items()): ... pen = DecomposingRecordingPen(glyphSet) ... glyph.draw(pen) ... print("{}: {}".format(name, pen.value)) a: [('moveTo', ((0, 0),)), ('curveTo', ((1, 1), (2, 2), (3, 3))), ('closePath', ())] b: [('moveTo', ((-1, 1),)), ('curveTo', ((0, 2), (1, 3), (2, 4))), ('closePath', ())]
- addComponent(glyphName, transformation)
Transform the points of the base glyph and draw it onto self.
- addVarComponent(glyphName, transformation, location)
Add a VarComponent sub glyph. The ‘transformation’ argument must be a DecomposedTransform from the fontTools.misc.transform module, and the ‘location’ argument must be a dictionary mapping axis tags to their locations.
- closePath()
Close the current sub path. You must call either pen.closePath() or pen.endPath() after each sub path.
- curveTo(*points)
Draw a cubic bezier with an arbitrary number of control points.
The last point specified is on-curve, all others are off-curve (control) points. If the number of control points is > 2, the segment is split into multiple bezier segments. This works like this:
Let n be the number of control points (which is the number of arguments to this call minus 1). If n==2, a plain vanilla cubic bezier is drawn. If n==1, we fall back to a quadratic segment and if n==0 we draw a straight line. It gets interesting when n>2: n-1 PostScript-style cubic segments will be drawn as if it were one curve. See decomposeSuperBezierSegment().
The conversion algorithm used for n>2 is inspired by NURB splines, and is conceptually equivalent to the TrueType “implied points” principle. See also decomposeQuadraticSegment().
- endPath()
End the current sub path, but don’t close it. You must call either pen.closePath() or pen.endPath() after each sub path.
- lineTo(p1)
Draw a straight line from the current point to ‘pt’.
- property log
- moveTo(p0)
Begin a new sub path, set the current point to ‘pt’. You must end each sub path with a call to pen.closePath() or pen.endPath().
- qCurveTo(*points)
Draw a whole string of quadratic curve segments.
The last point specified is on-curve, all others are off-curve points.
This method implements TrueType-style curves, breaking up curves using ‘implied points’: between each two consequtive off-curve points, there is one implied point exactly in the middle between them. See also decomposeQuadraticSegment().
The last argument (normally the on-curve point) may be None. This is to support contours that have NO on-curve points (a rarely seen feature of TrueType outlines).
- replay(pen)
- skipMissingComponents = False
- class fontTools.pens.recordingPen.RecordingPen[source]
Pen recording operations that can be accessed or replayed.
The recording can be accessed as pen.value; or replayed using pen.replay(otherPen).
- Example
from fontTools.ttLib import TTFont from fontTools.pens.recordingPen import RecordingPen
glyph_name = ‘dollar’ font_path = ‘MyFont.otf’
font = TTFont(font_path) glyphset = font.getGlyphSet() glyph = glyphset[glyph_name]
pen = RecordingPen() glyph.draw(pen) print(pen.value)
- addComponent(glyphName, transformation)[source]
Add a sub glyph. The ‘transformation’ argument must be a 6-tuple containing an affine transformation, or a Transform object from the fontTools.misc.transform module. More precisely: it should be a sequence containing 6 numbers.
- addVarComponent(glyphName, transformation, location)[source]
Add a VarComponent sub glyph. The ‘transformation’ argument must be a DecomposedTransform from the fontTools.misc.transform module, and the ‘location’ argument must be a dictionary mapping axis tags to their locations.
- closePath()[source]
Close the current sub path. You must call either pen.closePath() or pen.endPath() after each sub path.
- curveTo(*points)[source]
Draw a cubic bezier with an arbitrary number of control points.
The last point specified is on-curve, all others are off-curve (control) points. If the number of control points is > 2, the segment is split into multiple bezier segments. This works like this:
Let n be the number of control points (which is the number of arguments to this call minus 1). If n==2, a plain vanilla cubic bezier is drawn. If n==1, we fall back to a quadratic segment and if n==0 we draw a straight line. It gets interesting when n>2: n-1 PostScript-style cubic segments will be drawn as if it were one curve. See decomposeSuperBezierSegment().
The conversion algorithm used for n>2 is inspired by NURB splines, and is conceptually equivalent to the TrueType “implied points” principle. See also decomposeQuadraticSegment().
- endPath()[source]
End the current sub path, but don’t close it. You must call either pen.closePath() or pen.endPath() after each sub path.
- moveTo(p0)[source]
Begin a new sub path, set the current point to ‘pt’. You must end each sub path with a call to pen.closePath() or pen.endPath().
- qCurveTo(*points)[source]
Draw a whole string of quadratic curve segments.
The last point specified is on-curve, all others are off-curve points.
This method implements TrueType-style curves, breaking up curves using ‘implied points’: between each two consequtive off-curve points, there is one implied point exactly in the middle between them. See also decomposeQuadraticSegment().
The last argument (normally the on-curve point) may be None. This is to support contours that have NO on-curve points (a rarely seen feature of TrueType outlines).
- class fontTools.pens.recordingPen.RecordingPointPen[source]
PointPen recording operations that can be accessed or replayed.
The recording can be accessed as pen.value; or replayed using pointPen.replay(otherPointPen).
- Example
from defcon import Font from fontTools.pens.recordingPen import RecordingPointPen
glyph_name = ‘a’ font_path = ‘MyFont.ufo’
font = Font(font_path) glyph = font[glyph_name]
pen = RecordingPointPen() glyph.drawPoints(pen) print(pen.value)
new_glyph = font.newGlyph(‘b’) pen.replay(new_glyph.getPointPen())
- addPoint(pt, segmentType=None, smooth=False, name=None, identifier=None, **kwargs)[source]
Add a point to the current sub path.
- addVarComponent(baseGlyphName, transformation, location, identifier=None, **kwargs)[source]
Add a VarComponent sub glyph. The ‘transformation’ argument must be a DecomposedTransform from the fontTools.misc.transform module, and the ‘location’ argument must be a dictionary mapping axis tags to their locations.
- fontTools.pens.recordingPen.replayRecording(recording, pen)[source]
Replay a recording, as produced by RecordingPen or DecomposingRecordingPen, to a pen.
Note that recording does not have to be produced by those pens. It can be any iterable of tuples of method name and tuple-of-arguments. Likewise, pen can be any objects receiving those method calls.