In the last six months we've added support for shaping new scripts, glyph positioning, accessing glyph contours, improved performance, and more.
Allsorts is a Rust crate (library) that can parse OpenType, WOFF, and WOFF2 fonts, shape text, and subset fonts1. We use it in Prince for all font parsing, shaping, and subsetting.
Continue reading…A year ago YesLogic open-sourced the Allsorts font parser, shaping engine, and subsetter. In this post we cover how Allsorts has worked out in Prince, what's improved over the past year, and what we're working on next.
Allsorts is a Rust crate (library) that can parse OpenType, WOFF, and WOFF2 fonts, shape text, and subset fonts1.
Continue reading…Today YesLogic is open-sourcing the Allsorts font parser, shaping engine, and subsetter for OpenType, WOFF, and WOFF2 under the Apache 2.0 license. Allsorts was extracted from the Prince HTML to PDF typesetting and layout tool and is implemented in Rust.
Prince is a tool that converts HTML and CSS into well laid out PDFs. Our customers use it to produce books, restaurant menus, invoices, business cards, and much more. Two years ago YesLogic set out to improve the font parsing and shaping in Prince.
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