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Pango - Framework for the layout and rendering of internationalized text.Updated by FastRunneron Tuesday, July 08th 2008.
Pango is a library for layout and rendering of text, with an emphasis
on internationalization. Pango can be used anywhere that text layout
is needed, though most usage so far as been in the context of the
GTK+ widget toolkit. Pango forms the core of text and font handling
for GTK+ 2.
Pango is designed to be modular; the core Pango layout can be used
with four different font backends:
Core X windowing system fonts,
Client-side fonts on X using the Xft2 library,
Direct rendering of scalable fonts using the FreeType library,
Native fonts on Microsoft platforms.
Dynamically loaded modules then handle text layout for particular
combinations of script and font backend. Pango-1.2 ships with a wide
selection of modules, including modules for Hebrew, Arabic, Hangul,
Thai, and a number of Indic scripts. Virtually all of the world's major
scripts are supported. As well as the low level layout rendering routines, Pango includes
PangoLayout, a high level driver for laying out entire blocks of text,
and routines to assist in editing internationalized text.
Licence : LGPL
Version : 1.20.5 [Stable] 1.21.3 [Development]
Requirements : GLib
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