Font rendering on a GPU-based raster image processor

John L. Recker; Giordano B. Beretta; I-Jong Lin

doi:10.1117/12.839486

18 January 2010 Font rendering on a GPU-based raster image processor

John L. Recker, Giordano B. Beretta, I-Jong Lin

Proceedings Volume 7528, Color Imaging XV: Displaying, Processing, Hardcopy, and Applications; 75280A (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.839486
Event: IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging, 2010, San Jose, California, United States

Abstract

Historically, in the 35 years of digital printing research, raster image processing has always lagged behind marking engine technology, i.e., we have never been able to deliver rendered digital pages as fast as digital print engines can consume them. This trend has resulted in products based on throttled digital printers or expensive raster image processors (RIP) with hardware acceleration. The current trend in computer software architecture is to leverage graphic processing units (GPU) for computing tasks whenever appropriate. We discuss the issues for rendering fonts on such an architecture and present an implementation.

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John L. Recker, Giordano B. Beretta, and I-Jong Lin "Font rendering on a GPU-based raster image processor", Proc. SPIE 7528, Color Imaging XV: Displaying, Processing, Hardcopy, and Applications, 75280A (18 January 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.839486

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