harfbuzz
kudu
harfbuzz | kudu | |
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33 | 8 | |
3,592 | 3,106 | |
1.5% | 0.0% | |
9.8 | 5.9 | |
5 days ago | 4 days ago | |
C++ | C# | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | Apache License 2.0 |
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harfbuzz
- HarfBuzz: Text Shaping Engine
- Rive Renderer – now open source and available on all platforms
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Libsodium: A modern, portable, easy to use crypto library
For C/C++ projects that use meson as the build system, there is an excellent way to manage dependencies:
https://mesonbuild.com/Wrapdb-projects.html
https://mesonbuild.com/Wrap-dependency-system-manual.html
meson will download and build the libraries automatically and give you a variable which you pass as a regular dependency into the built target:
https://github.com/qemu/qemu/tree/005ad32358f12fe9313a4a0191...
https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/tree/main/subprojects
https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/blob/37457412b3212463c5...
Or, if you're using proper operating systems, they're managed by the usual package manager, just like everything else.
- The Web Assembly Shaper
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Text Rendering Hates You
If you sympathize with the travails of people working on text rendering in applications, please consider supporting (among other projects):
1. The LibreOffice project (libreoffice.org), the free office application suite. This is where the rubber hits the road and developers deal with the extreme complexities of everything regarding text - shaping, styling, multi-object interaction, multi-language, you name it. And - they/we absolutely need donations to manage a project with > 200 million users: https://www.libreoffice.org/donate
2. harfbuzz (https://harfbuzz.github.io), and specifically Behdad Esfahood the main contributor. Although, TBH, I've not quite figured out whether you can donate to that or to him. At least star the project on GitHub I guess.
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ImGui or text rendering libraries
As for text, it depends very heavily on what exactly you need. Simple ASCII text and bitmap fonts? Just do it yourself or get a .bdf parser. Simple Latin/Cyrillic-like writing with ok-looking vector fonts (ttfs)? stb_truetype has all you need. Font hinting, subpixel rendering? You use freetype. More complex writing like Arabic? You will have to do shaping as well, say with HarfBuzz. Need right-to-left or unidirectional text? Hypenation? Go for platform APIs if you can (DirectWrite om Windows, CoreText on Mac).
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QuestPDF: Modern .NET library for PDF document generation
Gold standard? Even though serious bugs are not fixed [1] because "the code is too fragile to touch at this point"? Looks like Android uses HarfBuzz, if so it can't be that bad.
[1] https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/issues/2814
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A Programmable Markup Language for Typesetting [pdf]
The linked libraries are not even close to solving limited subsets of problems solved by FreeType or HarfBuzz. No test is needed if they do not even have a working implementation of particular requisites: Do they work on heterogeneous layouts, directions, languages, locales, scripts, symbols and composites, extensions, variations, legacy, missing, partial or corrupted instructions, standards interpretations, platforms, output devices, nonstandard point structures and grids?
They do not. What they solve is almost a toy problem compared to the size, scope and breadth of these libraries.
Just because some project is implemented in Rust does not make it comparable never mind superior by default.
There is a world out there and it is not homogeneous format and standards-compliant Latin fonts in English LTR text in linear disposition with some generic rectangular subpixel rendering on a regular rectangular grid.
I warmly welcome you to browse closed issues of FreeType [1] and also the closed issues of HarfBuzz [2]. If you feel inspired please do also look into mailing lists and discussion pages related to the development, building, tracking and patching of packages of these projects in any of the numerous places it is used.
The only argument Rust people have is in relation WASM but if you insist in targeting WASM why not fork FreeType, strip it to the strict subset of features your application needs and target it?
Why do it in the first place? Why reinvent the wheel?
As such I will restate my view: I see no gain in using any of these subpar libraries.
[1] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/freetype/freetype/-/issues/?s...
[2] https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/issues?q=is%3Aclosed
- Harfbuzz 6.0
kudu
- Compiler errors on Azure that used to work locally
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Introducing Kudu, the engine that handle all web application deployment to Azure App Service.
But behind the scenes, all these options are using the same back engine, which is Kudu.
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QuestPDF: Modern .NET library for PDF document generation
[4] https://github.com/projectkudu/kudu/wiki/Azure-Web-App-sandb...
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.NET client wrapper Kudu API
A .NET client wrapper for using the Kudu API with strong-typed requests and responses.
- Azure: node.exe process in my Window sWeb App Pool! What is it?
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Tackle 0 Byte files in Azure Blob Storage with ease using Azure PowerShell
In the search for the 0 Byte files I came across Azure temp and Azure cache folders on the Azure Web App. The application uses these folders to store temporary data from Azure Blob Storage. Through Kudu Console, a service available for Azure Web Apps, it is possible to navigate through these folders using the command prompt. By executing the following command line script all 0 Byte files will be searched and written to a txt file:
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Deploying a .Net Core Console app as Azure WebJob
If you would like more information about how Kudu handles WebJobs, you can visit the kudu project wiki on github.
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Develop a Serverless Integration Platform for the Enterprise
Depending on your configuration, you may need to use customized deployments settings
What are some alternatives?
imgui-sfml - Dear ImGui backend for use with SFML
pdfjet - PDF library for Java, C#, Swift and Go developers
nanovg - Antialiased 2D vector drawing library on top of OpenGL for UI and visualizations.
TuesPechkin - A .NET wrapper for the wkhtmltopdf library with an object-oriented API.
contour - Modern C++ Terminal Emulator
scriban - A fast, powerful, safe and lightweight scripting language and engine for .NET
c-ares - A C library for asynchronous DNS requests
KuduApi.Client - A .NET client wrapper for using the [Kudu API](https://github.com/projectkudu/kudu/wiki/REST-API) with strong-typed requests and responses.
imgui_sdl - ImGuiSDL: SDL2 based renderer for Dear ImGui
gofpdi - Go Free PDF Document Importer
Tehreer-Android - Standalone text engine for Android aimed to be free from platform limitations
WeasyPrint - The awesome document factory