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Brendan Zabarauskas
@brendanzab
We're actively working on making Prince better! If you are in the Melbourne/Australia area and are interested in working in
@MercuryLang
or
@RustLang
, let us know! There's lots of super interesting computer science and programming language problems involved printing/page layout.
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Dave Cramer
@dauwhe
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I have nothing but good things to say about PrinceXML. We've produced more than fifty million print books with it. It's becoming more and more sophisticated, especially with Prince for Books. It's easy to experiment with. And there's great support from @yeslogic. CSS + Print = ❤️
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Brendan Zabarauskas
@brendanzab
Font shaping is required for font rendering, but they aren't the same thing. Font shaping is the process that consumes a stream of unicode codepoints, and based on the font file, figures out what glyphs from the font to render and where to render them.
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Brendan Zabarauskas
@brendanzab
Pretty similar. We're also pretty interested in trying to help improve the current understanding and clarity of the OpenType specification in the process though - this is something that needs quite a bit of work.
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Brendan Zabarauskas
@brendanzab
Yeah! We'd love to have collaborators! At the moment the code is currently living in Prince itself. Our main focus at the moment is getting indic shaping working for a release, but hopefully then we can work on pulling it out into a separate repo/crate that we can get help with!
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