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 # vKVM TextRenderer
 
-translate a string from terminal to the readable form of shared memory . 
+The TextRenderer gets a string from the Shared Memory and converts the text into
+a bitmap-array. Afterwards the array is send back to the Shared Memory.
+
+To convert a string the TextRendere uses a font, which is loaded from a bitmap-file.
 
 ## Installation