# love.graphics.print

Draws text on screen. If no Font is set, one will be created and set (once) if needed.

As of LOVE 0.7.1, when using translation and scaling functions while drawing text, this function assumes the scale occurs first. If you don't script with this in mind, the text won't be in the right position, or possibly even on screen.

love.graphics.print and love.graphics.printf both suppport UTF-8 encoding. You'll also need a proper Font for special characters.

## Function

### Synopsis

    love.graphics.print( text, x, y, r, sx, sy, ox, oy, kx, ky )

### Arguments

`string text`
  The text to draw.
`number x`
  The position to draw the object (x-axis).
`number y`
  The position to draw the object (y-axis).
`number r (0)`
  Orientation (radians).
`number sx (1)`
  Scale factor (x-axis).
`number sy (sx)`
  Scale factor (y-axis).
`number ox (0)`
  Origin offset (x-axis).
`number oy (0)`
  Origin offset (y-axis).

Available since LÖVE 0.8.0

`number kx (0)`
  Shearing factor (x-axis).
`number ky (0)`
  Shearing factor (y-axis).

### Returns

Nothing.

## Examples

### A lame example

    function love.draw()
        love.graphics.setColor(0, 255, 0, 255)
        love.graphics.print("This is a pretty lame example.", 10, 200)
        love.graphics.setColor(255, 0, 0, 255)
        love.graphics.print("This lame example is twice as big.", 10, 250, 0, 2, 2)
        love.graphics.setColor(0, 0, 255, 255)
        love.graphics.print("This example is lamely vertical.", 300, 30, math.pi/2)
    end

## Notes

In version 0.8.0 and older, love.graphics.print stops at the first '\0' (null) character. This can bite you if you are appending keystrokes to form your string, as some of those are multi-byte unicode characters which will likely contain null bytes.

## See Also

- love.graphics
- love.graphics.printf

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Category:

- Functions