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danielvaughn on Dec 15, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Qt Widgets Rendering Pipeline

At a glance, the rendering pipeline doesn’t seem too different than rendering on the web.

ReactiveJelly on Dec 15, 2023 | [–]

There's only so many ways to approach the impossible task of rendering text.

For one, I think Harfbuzz text shaping underlies Skia, QPainter, and every other text renderer?

0x1cebooda on Dec 15, 2023 | [–]

Or any other ui toolkit.

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