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A library that handles caching rendered glyphs on the GPU
This fits as a layer in your rendering pipeline between font rasterization and shaping and text rendering. In other words, first you turn a string into a series of font glyphs. Each of those glyphs is looked up against the cache, and if it hasn’t been rendered, it is turned into a bitmap and uploaded to the GPU. The string is then laid out and rendered by the client application.
Scope of this library:
- DO support various font libraries / types of fonts (TTFs, bitmap fonts)
- DO support whatever backend (rendering to an image, GPU frameworks, etc.)
- DON’T handle complex tasks like shaping. The font stack should handle that elsewhere, and provide this library the glyphs to render
- DON’T handle layout. This can be taken care of by the client application when rendering.
Support is available out-of-the-box for software rendering via image, rendering via
rusttype, and performing automatic unicode normalization. All of these are optional features.
Modules§
Structs§
- Bounds
- Font
Cache - The main structure for maintaing a cache of rendered glyphs
- Glyph
- The index of the font character to render
- Metrics
- The layout information for a glyph
- Texture
Glyph - The relevant information for a glyph stored on the texture
Enums§
- Cache
Error - An error generated during a cache operation
- Pixel
Type - How the pixels of the rasterized font are represented
Traits§
- Font
Provider - Any object that can turn characters into glyphs and render them can be a FontProvider
- Texture
- Any object that can take the data for glyphs and store it over time