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Comment by ben-schaaf

6 months ago

> What’s a native render function?

As in using DirectWrite or GDI on Windows; or Core Text on macOS. As opposed to shipping your own glyph rasterizer.

Doesn't the blog post specifically say they are shipping their own glyph rasterizer?

  • No?

    > To work around this limitation, we decided to stop using Direct2D and switch to rasterizing glyphs using DirectWrite instead.