ab-glyph
WebKit
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ab-glyph
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Any suggestion for gpu text rendering?
I've only used ab-glyph myself though.
- A Programmable Markup Language for Typesetting [pdf]
- Draw 2D Text in OpenGL
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How to render text with rust?
ab_glyph is at the same level to DirectWrite/uniscribe where you hand it a character, and it hands you back a rasterized glyph - it's on you on how to draw it.
- Text Rendering w/ HarfBuzz, FreeType and OpenGL
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swash: Complex text shaping and glyph rasterization in pure Rust
Like tiny-skia? As for font-specific one there are ab-glyph and fontdue.
WebKit
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A Programmable Markup Language for Typesetting [pdf]
Thanks. Yes, rendering and shaping are distinct but some of the linked libraries did one, the other, or both and the parent commenter singled out rastering which is how I ended up putting FreeType and HarfBuzz in the same sentence. Even then both are commonly used in tandem (see [1]-[9]) and have a few overlapping functionalities.
> it does support BiDi, complex script shaping
Hey, that is indeed quite good. Would you mind if I ask you how well is the support for popular Asian languages?
> linking C and Rust in WASM is unfortunately not really possible
Damn. I am not very experienced in Rust but I would not have guessed that. I apologize if I misrepresented difficulties related to targeting WASM.
[1] https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/WebKit/tree/WebKi...
[2] https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/WebKit/tree/WebKi...
[3] https://github.com/chromium/chromium/tree/main/third_party/f...
[4] https://github.com/chromium/chromium/tree/main/third_party/h...
[5] https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/modules/freetyp...
[6] https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/gfx/harfbuzz
[7] https://cs.android.com/android/platform/superproject/+/maste...
[8] https://cs.android.com/android/platform/superproject/+/maste...
[9] https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=...
What are some alternatives?
fontdue - The fastest font renderer in the world, written in pure rust.
hayagriva - Rusty bibliography management.
wgpu-text - 📜A simple 2D text renderer for wgpu📜 > is a wrapper over glyph-brush for easier text rendering in wgpu > inspired by similar to wgpu_glyph
rustybuzz - A complete harfbuzz's shaping algorithm port to Rust
harfbuzz - HarfBuzz text shaping engine
neovide - No Nonsense Neovim Client in Rust
htmlwg - HTML Working Group
swash - Font introspection, complex text shaping and glyph rendering.
pixglyph - OpenType glyph rendering.
x11-rs - Rust bindings for X11 libraries
font-rs