A million thanks for the constant work on Pango, and
specially the
time spent on fixing bug 385168.
Cheers,
Matt
On 5/31/07, Behdad Esfahbod <besfahbo redhat.com> wrote:
> Pango-1.17.1 is now available for download at:
>
> http://
download.gnome.org/sources/pango/1.17/
> or
> ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/pango/1.17
>
> 65861273a8e777f125ebfb4cc4d7acfe pango-1.17.1.tar.bz2
> 54b756fb073d496d079becf8ae3eb2cf pango-1.17.1.tar.gz
>
> This is the a development release in a series leading
to
> Pango-1.18.0, which will be released just in time for
> GNOME-2.20.
>
>
> Notes:
>
> * This is unstable development release. While it has
had
> fairly extensive testing, there are likely bugs
> remaining to be found. This release should not be
used
> in production.
>
> * Installing this version will overwrite your existing
> copy of Pango. If you have problems, you'll need
> to reinstall Pango-1.16.x
>
> * Bugs should be reported to http://bugzilla.gnome.org.
>
> About Pango
> ===========
>
> 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 of the work on Pango so far has
been done in
> the context of the GTK+ widget toolkit. Pango forms the
core of text
> and font handling for GTK+-2.x.
>
> Pango is designed to be modular; the core Pango layout
engine can
> be used with different font backends. There are three
basic backends,
> with multiple options for rendering with each.
>
> - Client side fonts using the FreeType and fontconfig
libraries.
> Rendering can be with with Cairo or Xft libraries,
or directly
> to an in-memory buffer with no additional libraries.
>
> - Native fonts on Microsoft Windows using Uniscribe
for
> complex-text handling. Rendering can be done via
Cairo or
> directly using the native Win32 API.
>
> - Native fonts on MacOS X, rendering via Cairo.
>
> The integration of Pango with Cairo (http://cairographics.org
)
> provides a complete solution with high quality text
handling
> and graphics rendering.
>
> Dynamically loaded modules then handle text layout for
particular
> combinations of script and font backend. Pango 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.
>
> More information about Pango is available from http://www.pango.org/.
> Bugs should be reported to http://bugzilla.gnome.org.
>
> Pango 1.17 depends on version 2.12.0 or newer of the
GLib
> library and version 1.2.6 or newer of the cairo library
(if the
> cairo backend is desired); more information about GLib
and cairo
> can be found at http://www.gtk.org/ and http://cairographics.org/
> respectively.
>
> Overview of changes between 1.17.0 and 1.17.1
> ==============================================
>
> - Ported the rest of OpenType shapers to the new
OpenType APIs and
> added standard features to them: Hebrew, Indic,
Khmer, Thai, and Tibetan.
>
> - Added N'Ko support to the Arabic module. [Eugeniy
Meshcheryakov]
>
> - Small Indic module fix for Malayalam.
>
> - Fixed font metrics returned by the ATSUI backend.
[Richard Hult]
>
> - Make itemization use pango_language_get_default() if
context has no
> language set on it. Ditto for
pango_context_get_metrics() if both
> input language and context language are NULL.
>
> - Improved documentation on vertical text, also added
stability note
> to those parts of Pango API that are not indefinitely
stable (shaper
> and language engine APIs).
>
> - Misc bug fixes.
>
> - New OpenType engine API:
>
> pango_ot_ruleset_get_feature_count()
>
> - Bugs fixed in this release:
>
> Bug 357790 – Rendering problem for malayalam
consonant RA (U+0D30)
> Bug 385168 – indic, khmer, and tibetan
modules don't apply ccmp
> Bug 385477 – kern feature is not supported in
OpenType layout for Tibetan.
> Bug 433805 - [Atsui] Approximate char/digit
width width often 0
> Bug 436699 – N'Ko support
> Bug 438705 – Test runs non-existent
"/bin/bash" on HP-UX 11.11
> Bug 438814 – synaptic crash with pango 1.17.0
> Bug 440603 – Minor ABI change
>
> 30 May 2007
> Behdad Esfahbod
>
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