Article 3B326 [$] HarfBuzz brings professional typography to the desktop

[$] HarfBuzz brings professional typography to the desktop

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jake
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By their nature, low-level libraries go mostly unnoticed by users andeven some programmers. Usually, they are only noticed when something goeswrong. However, HarfBuzzdeserves to be an exception. Not only does the adoption of HarfBuzz meanthat free software's ability to convert Unicodecharacters to a font's specific glyphs is as advanced as any proprietaryequivalent, but its increasing use means that professional typography cannow be done from the Linux desktop as easily as at a print shop.

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