Pango-1.11.2 is now available for download at:
ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.9/
pango-1.11.2.tar.bz2 md5sum:
3e1a72b0324a03f8710b9cd13f98c81f
pango-1.11.2.tar.gz md5sum: 44e18556a3acfb2623002c89a7c51bcd
This is a development release leading up to Pango-1.12.0,
which
will be released just in time for GNOME-2.14.
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-1.10. If you have problems, you'll need
to reinstall Pango-1.10.1
* 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 two 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. (Optionally 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/.
Pango 1.11.2 depends on version 2.9.1 or newer of the GLib
library; more information about GLib can be found at
http://www.gtk.org/.
Overview of changes between 1.11.1 and 1.11.2
=============================================
* Draw hex box on missing glyphs for cairo-fc backend.
* New --with-dynamic-modules option added to configure.
* Use g_slice for various small memory allocations [Matthias
Clasen]
* Misc bug fixes, optimizations, and documentation
improvements.
Behdad Esfahbod
17 January 2006
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