method text-block($font = self!current-font[0], *%opt) {
        # detect and use the current text-state font
        my Numeric $font-size = $.font-size // self!current-font[1];
        PDF::Content::Text::Block.new(
            :gfx(self), :$font, :$font-size, |%opt,
            );
    }

    #| output text leave the text position at the end of the current line
    multi method print(
        Str $text,
        *%opt,  # :$align, :$valign, :$kern, :$leading, :$width, :$height, :$baseline-shift, :$font, :$font-size
    ) {
        my $text-block = self.text-block( :$text, |%opt);
        @.print( $text-block, |%opt);
    }

    multi method print(PDF::Content::Text::Block $text-block,
                       Position :$position,
                       Bool :$nl = False,
                       Bool :$preserve = True,
        ) {
        my Bool $left = False;
        my Bool $top = False;
        my Bool \in-text = $.context == GraphicsContext::Text;

        self.BeginText unless in-text;

        self!set-position($text-block, $_, :$left, :$top)
            with $position;
        my ($x, $y) = $.text-position;
        my ($dx, $dy) = $text-block.render(self, :$nl, :$top, :$left, :$preserve);

        self.EndText() unless in-text;

        with $*ActualText {
            # Pass agregated text back to callee e.g. PDF::Tags::Elem.mark()
            $_ ~= $text-block.text;
            $_ ~= "\n" if $nl;
        }

        my \x0 = $x + $dx;
        my \y0 = $y + $dy;
        my \x1 = x0 + $text-block.width;
        my \y1 = y0 + $text-block.height;

        (x0, y0, x1, y1);
    }

    method say($text = '', *%opt) {
        @.print($text, :nl, |%opt);
    }

    multi method print(Str $text, :$font = self!current-font[0], |c) {
        nextwith( $text, :$font, |c);
    }

    method user-default-coords(|c) is DEPRECATED('base-coords') {
        $.base-coords(|c);
    }
}