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Sharlin
on Jan 1, 2024
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Writing a TrueType font renderer
Well, yes, but GDI isn't exactly available when you're writing
your own OS
like the author of the article.
vidarh
on Jan 1, 2024
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The rasterisation doesn't take much anyway. My libschrift Ruby translation does the rendering in around 100 or so lines. The original libschrift is in C and only takes about twice as much. Parsing the TTF files takes more code.
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