Switch to Harfbuzz about satori HOT 5 OPEN

Looks like the correct way to go in the future:

https://twitter.com/KhaledGhetas/status/1548752758282534913

from satori.

Thanks again for the pointers @devongovett! I actually looked into fontkit before picking opentype.js (because it's smaller, seems like a wrong choice lol), and actually read a lot of your comments from everywhere (thank you again!), and I understand the complexibility of this. Hence the first phase of this project is to support only basic text layout and font features.

Anyways, this is definitely our top priority!

from satori.

You could also try fontkit, which is a pure JS implementation supporting complex scripts. It powers pdfkit.

There's also textkit for handling higher level text layout (eg line wrapping, font substitution, etc.). That's used by react-pdf.

I'd highly recommend looking into some of these libraries and how they do text layout, because it is extremely complicated (especially with non-English text). Back when react-pdf was investigating this, I wrote this comment explaining the whole text layout process - maybe it's helpful to you. foliojs/pdfkit#783 (comment)

from satori.

@shuding how would you workaround the limitations of Harfbuzz, such as line breaking?

from satori.

@shuding how would you workaround the limitations of Harfbuzz, such as line breaking?

Thank you for sharing this!

from satori.