SixLabors.Fonts 1.0.0-beta17

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dotnet add package SixLabors.Fonts --version 1.0.0-beta17
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<PackageReference Include="SixLabors.Fonts" Version="1.0.0-beta17" />
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paket add SixLabors.Fonts --version 1.0.0-beta17
#r "nuget: SixLabors.Fonts, 1.0.0-beta17"
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// Install SixLabors.Fonts as a Cake Addin
#addin nuget:?package=SixLabors.Fonts&version=1.0.0-beta17&prerelease

// Install SixLabors.Fonts as a Cake Tool
#tool nuget:?package=SixLabors.Fonts&version=1.0.0-beta17&prerelease

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Build Status codecov License: Apache 2.0

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SixLabors.Fonts is a new cross-platform font loading and drawing library.

License

Support Six Labors

Support the efforts of the development of the Six Labors projects.

Documentation

  • Detailed documentation for the Fonts API is available. This includes additional conceptual documentation to help you get started.
  • Our Samples Repository is also available containing buildable code samples demonstrating common activities.

Questions

Code of Conduct

This project has adopted the code of conduct defined by the Contributor Covenant to clarify expected behavior in our community. For more information, see the .NET Foundation Code of Conduct.

Installation

Install stable releases via Nuget; development releases are available via MyGet.

Package Name Release (NuGet) Nightly (MyGet)
SixLabors.Fonts NuGet MyGet

Manual build

If you prefer, you can compile Fonts yourself (please do and help!)

Alternatively, you can work from command line and/or with a lightweight editor on both Linux/Unix and Windows:

To clone Fonts locally, click the "Clone in [YOUR_OS]" button above or run the following git commands:

git clone https://github.com/SixLabors/Fonts

If working with Windows please ensure that you have enabled log file paths in git (run as Administrator).

git config --system core.longpaths true

Submodules

This repository contains git submodules. To add the submodules to the project, navigate to the repository root and type:

git submodule update --init --recursive

Features

  • Reading font description (name, family, subname etc plus other string metadata).
  • Loading True type fonts.
  • Loading WOFF fonts.
  • Loading WOFF2 fonts.
  • Load all compatible fonts from local machine store.
  • Support for rendering left to right, right to left and bidirectional text.
  • Support for ligatures.
  • Support for advanced OpenType features glyph substitution (GSUB) and glyph positioning (GPOS)
Limitations

We currently only support otf and woff/woff2 fonts with True Type outlines.

API Examples

Read font description

FontDescription description = null;
using(var fs = File.OpenRead("Font.ttf")){
    description = FontDescription.Load(fs); // once it has loaded the data the stream is no longer required and can be disposed of
}

string name = description.FontName(CultureInfo.InvariantCulture);

Populating a font collection

FontCollection fonts = new FontCollection();
FontFamily font1 = fonts.Add("./path/to/font1.ttf");
FontFamily font2 = fonts.Add("./path/to/font2.woff");

How can you help?

Please... Spread the word, contribute algorithms, submit performance improvements, unit tests.

Projects using SixLabors.Fonts

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ClosedXML The ID prefix of this package has been reserved for one of the owners of this package by NuGet.org.

See release notes https://github.com/ClosedXML/ClosedXML/releases/tag/0.104.0-preview2 ClosedXML is a .NET library for reading, manipulating and writing Excel 2007+ (.xlsx, .xlsm) files. It aims to provide an intuitive and user-friendly interface to dealing with the underlying OpenXML API.

NPOI The ID prefix of this package has been reserved for one of the owners of this package by NuGet.org.

.NET port of Apache POI | Contact us on telegram: https://t.me/npoidevs

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An extension to ImageSharp that allows the drawing of images, paths, and text.

PdfSharpCore

PdfSharp for .NET Core PdfSharpCore is a partial port of PdfSharp.Xamarin for .NET Core Additionally MigraDoc has been ported as well (from version 1.32). Images have been implemented with ImageSharp from https://www.nuget.org/packages/SixLabors.ImageSharp

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Allows generating glyphs for text and a fonts for manipulation using SixLabors.Shapes

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ClosedXML is a .NET library for reading, manipulating and writing Excel 2007+ (.xlsx, .xlsm) files. It aims to provide an intuitive and user-friendly interface to dealing with the underlying OpenXML API.
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Scan documents to PDF and more, as simply as possible.
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Damselfly is a server-based Photograph Management app. The goal of Damselfly is to index an extremely large collection of images, and allow easy search and retrieval of those images, using metadata such as the IPTC keyword tags, as well as the folder and file names. Damselfly includes support for object/face detection.
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