Rendering PostScript^TM fonts on FPGAs

MacVicar, D., Patterson, J. and Singh, S. (1999) Rendering PostScript^TM fonts on FPGAs. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 1673, pp. 223-232. (doi: 10.1007/b72332)

Abstract

This paper describes how custom computing machines can be used to implement a simple outline font processor. An FPGA based co-processor is used to accelerate the compute intensive portions of font rendering. The font processor builds on several PostScript components previously presented by the authors to produce a system that can rapidly render fonts. A prototype implementation is described followed by an explanation of how this could be extended to build a complete system.

• Item Type: Articles
• Status: Published
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: UNSPECIFIED
• Authors: MacVicar, D., Patterson, J., and Singh, S.
• Subjects: Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science; Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA76 Computer software
• College/School: College of Science and Engineering > School of Computing Science
• Journal Name: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• Publisher: Springer
• ISSN: 0302-9743
• Copyright Holders: Copyright © 1999 Springer
• First Published: First published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1673:223-232
• Publisher Policy: Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher