Purdy: An experimental PDF renderer using WebGPU

• msdfgen

  27 3,683 6.5 C++

  Multi-channel signed distance field generator

Well you may want to check out https://github.com/Chlumsky/msdfgen fwiw; that's what I'll likely use for the text rendering portion of a project I have planned, and it can result in some pretty great-looking text.

• purdy

  1 143 0.0 Rust

  Discontinued An experimental PDF renderer built on WebGPU

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• PDF.js

  83 46,157 9.9 JavaScript

  PDF Reader in JavaScript

  

For example, if you're targeting the browser, why not create a WebGPU-based renderer for pdf.js as a starting point, then implement the PDF parsing in Rust later and swap the JS implementation for the Rust one?

• lopdf

  4 1,477 6.6 Rust

  A Rust library for PDF document manipulation.

I copied a lot from lopdf which is a terrific library for PDF parsing. I don't rely on it explicitly as a dependency because there are some things I'm choosing to do differently, but I'd say at least 80% of the parsing logic is the same so it helped me to bootstrap quite a bit.

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