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by ben-schaaf 295 days 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.
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hoistbypetard 295 days ago
Doesn't the blog post specifically say they are shipping their own glyph rasterizer?
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ben-schaaf 295 days ago
No?

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

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