Source code for bdflib.effects

# bdflib, a library for working with BDF font files
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"""
Automatically generate visual variants of a font.
"""

from bdflib import model


[docs] def embolden(font: model.Font, maintain_spacing: bool = True) -> model.Font: """ Create a bold version of a font by widening each glyph. :param font: The font to embolden. :param maintain_spacing: If true, each glyph's advance width will be incremented, because a wider glyph needs more room. :returns: A copy of ``font``, with each glyph emboldened. To embolden a glyph, it is drawn over itself one pixel to the right, making each vertical stroke one pixel wider. """ res = font.copy() for cp in res.codepoints(): g = res[cp] g.merge_glyph(g, 1, 0) if maintain_spacing: g.advance += 1 return res
[docs] def expand(font: model.Font, x_factor: int, y_factor: int) -> model.Font: """ Create a font with greater resolution by duplicating glyph rows and columns. :param font: The font to expand. :param x_factor: The number of times to increase the font's horizontal resolution. Must be > 0. :param y_factor: The number of times to increase the font's vertical resolution. Must be > 0. :returns: A copy of ``font``, with the resolution adjusted. If ``font`` has a horizontal resolution of 72dpi, and ``x_factor`` is 2, the resulting font will have the same vertical metrics, but the horizontal resolution will be doubled to 144dpi. The new columns will be created by duplicating existing columns ("Nearest Neighbour"), so each column of a source glyph will appear twice in the resulting glyph. Vertical increases work the same way, except duplicating rows instead of columns. Because the resolution is increased, rather than making the glyph bigger, the point size stays the same. """ if x_factor < 1: raise ValueError("Scaling factor must be greater than 0") if y_factor < 1: raise ValueError("Scaling factor must be greater than 0") res = font.copy() # Adjust font metadata res.xdpi *= x_factor res.ydpi *= y_factor # Scale glyphs horizontally and vertically for g in res.glyphs: # Scale the glyph bitmap new_data = [] for old_row in g.data: # Calculate the new, horizontally scaled row new_row = 0 for x in range(g.bbW): pixel = (old_row >> x) & 1 for x_offset in range(x_factor): new_row |= pixel << (x * x_factor + x_offset) new_data.append(new_row) # Duplicate the new row to create vertical scaling for _ in range(1, y_factor): new_data.append(new_row) g.data = new_data # Adjust glyph metadata g.bbX *= x_factor g.bbY *= y_factor g.bbW *= x_factor g.bbH *= y_factor g.advance *= x_factor return res
[docs] def merge(base: model.Font, custom: model.Font) -> model.Font: """ Create a new font by choosing glyphs from two other fonts. :param base: The lower-priority font. :param custom: The higher-priority font. :returns: A font where each glyph comes from ``base`` or ``custom``. For any given codepoint, the resulting font will use the corresponding glyph from ``custom`` if there is one, falling back to the glyph from ``base``. The new font's properties and other metadata are all copied from ``custom``. """ res = custom.copy() for cp in base.codepoints(): if cp not in res: old_glyph = base[cp] res.new_glyph_from_data( old_glyph.name, old_glyph.data, old_glyph.bbX, old_glyph.bbY, old_glyph.bbW, old_glyph.bbH, old_glyph.advance, old_glyph.codepoint, ) return res