If you need pixel-perfect text tendering you can compile FreeType or such and use that. That will render pixels which you then copy to where you want.
Or, you can use the browser's text rendering capabilities on a canvas, but it will differ based on font, browser, os, etc. - Alon On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 2:36 PM, Mark Hahn <[email protected]> wrote: > I am going to use emscripten to port a text pagination application to the > browser. This is an engine that displays text in a page with precise and > complex line-wrap and pagination rules. It uses the metric of a font and > calls an API to render the font. > > Compiling the engine to asm.js should be easy but I'll have to implement > the text rendering function myself. I don't know how to do this. > > I looked at the SDL api and I see no mention of text. I can't use webgl > because I need IE support. I don't see how I could use html/css because > each character must be placed accurately. > > Any ideas would be greatly appreciated ... > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "emscripten-discuss" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "emscripten-discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
