import type { VDTTextDots } from '../vdt.js';
/**
 * Paint `text` at `(x, y)` as dots to trace (#1017), as `fillText` would
 * place it: the context's font, fill colour, direction, alignment,
 * tracking and language. On a mirrored page the dots are turned back about
 * the run's box, as its glyphs would be. Returns `false`, painting
 * nothing, where the dots cannot be drawn (no canvas to read the letters
 * from): the caller fills the text.
 */
export declare function fillTextDots(ctx: CanvasRenderingContext2D, text: string, x: number, y: number, dots: VDTTextDots): boolean;
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