[cairo] Text stuffing with Cairo/pycairo?

[Behdad Esfahbod]

Cairo can definitely do that. But it's you're on Mac, definitely look into
DrawBot.

On Wed, Apr 24, 2019, 7:28 AM Warren Vick <wvick at europa.uk.com> wrote:

> Hello,
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> New to the list and wondering if Cairo might be the right library to help
> me create some vector-based typographic art.
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> I’d like to create a piece that only use text at various font faces,
> sizes, style, colours, etc. It would largely be machine generated so I’d
> like to find a software library that will help me place vector text on a
> canvas and finally save as a large PDF. From a Python script, I’d like to
> be able to specify a bounding box on the page, the text string, text
> attributes and get the library to fill (by sizing and stretching) the text
> to fill the box. I’ll repeat this process several thousand times and when
> I’m done, simply save the PDF. I’d love to avoid messing around with font
> metrics if I can and get the library to do the “text stuffing” for me.
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> Is Cairo and the pycairo bindings the right library for me? Any simple
> example out there that might help? Many thanks.
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> Regards,
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> Warren
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