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Google Fonts
Font files available from Google Fonts, and a public issue tracker for all things Google Fonts
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QuestPDF
Generate and edit PDF documents in your .NET applications using the open-source QuestPDF library and its C# Fluent API. Build invoices, reports and data exports with ease.
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gotenberg
A developer-friendly API for converting numerous document formats into PDF files, and more!
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rerun
Visualize streams of multimodal data. Free, fast, easy to use, and simple to integrate. Built in Rust.
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SaaSHub
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- Harfbuzz Release 11.0.0
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Memory Safety for Web Fonts
It already is replaced by HarfBuzz https://harfbuzz.github.io
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Egui – An immediate mode GUI written in Rust
Text shaping is anything but easy. Harfbuzz is probably the state of the art open source solution - https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz
Used in in Android, Chrome, ChromeOS, Firefox, GNOME, GTK+, KDE, Qt, LibreOffice, OpenJDK, XeTeX, PlayStation, Microsoft Edge, Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Godot Engine, Unreal Engine, ...
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Tim Peters – Dispelling Information Asymmetry
>They do have "Developers in Residence" now
Yes - three of them, out of dozens of core developers, selected by a process I can't discern. Of course, right now the money simply isn't there to compensate everyone appropriately. (But one wonders why the Steering Council apparently suddenly requires a "Communications Liaison".)
>The sooner we end this era of "the entire world runs on the good will of bored nerds volunteering their time", the better.
Python is nowhere near the only project with this problem. If you appreciate the fact that your computer can properly display text in non-European languages, consider offering some support to Behdad Esfahbod, main developer of Harfbuzz (https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz).
As far as I can tell, Linux and Mozilla are the only two open-source organizations that have any significant revenue behind them. Most are probably even worse off than Python.
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Show HN: Handwriter.ttf – Handwriting Synthesis with Harfbuzz WASM
Font includes WASM code that harfbuzz executes for shaping: https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/blob/main/docs/wasm-sha...
It's an experimental feature, so it's not available unless explicitly enabled during compilation.
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Font as Tetris
You can also build harfbuzz as described here [2] and load it into some program. I used to just install it globally on arch and then use Gimp for the Bad apple example.
And lastly the same person who made the maze also made a way to use LD_PRELOAD to load a custom harfbuzz into arbitary software so you can follow that guide as well: [3]
[0]: https://github.com/hsfzxjy/Harfbuzz-WASM-Fantasy
[1]: https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz-wasm-examples
[2]: https://github.com/harfbuzz/harfbuzz/blob/main/docs/wasm-sha...
[3]: https://github.com/hsfzxjy/Bad-Apple-Font
- 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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A note from our sponsor - InfluxDB
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