ab-glyph
Rust API for loading, scaling, positioning and rasterizing OpenType font glyphs (by alexheretic)
x11-rs
Rust bindings for X11 libraries (by AltF02)
| ab-glyph | x11-rs | |
|---|---|---|
| 6 | 1 | |
| 333 | 196 | |
| - | - | |
| 6.3 | 2.1 | |
| 26 days ago | 9 months ago | |
| Rust | Rust | |
| Apache License 2.0 | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
ab-glyph
Posts with mentions or reviews of ab-glyph.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-05.
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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.
x11-rs
Posts with mentions or reviews of x11-rs.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-10-31.
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How to render text with rust?
windows-rs and x11-rs provide access on windows and x11 Linux desktops respectively to create a window and handle input.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing ab-glyph and x11-rs you can also consider the following projects:
fontdue - The fastest font renderer in the world, written in pure rust.
egui - egui: an easy-to-use immediate mode GUI in Rust that runs on both web and native
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
glium - Safe OpenGL wrapper for the Rust language.
rustybuzz - A complete harfbuzz's shaping algorithm port to Rust
neovide - No Nonsense Neovim Client in Rust
learn-wgpu - Guide for using gfx-rs's wgpu library.
swash - Font introspection, complex text shaping and glyph rendering.
windows-rs - Rust for Windows
cosmic-text - Pure Rust multi-line text handling
ash - Vulkan bindings for Rust