Pango-1.6.0 is now available for download at: ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.6/ pango-1.6.0.tar.bz2 md5sum: 6c732bbc5fba5a0f1f8086e8aa4f490d pango-1.6.0.tar.gz md5sum: 86c1e3b72aeb0fa6b5ab022e406f48a1 This is a stable release providing new functionality as compared to Pango-1.4, while maintaining source and binary compatibility. Notable improvements in Pango since version 1.4 include: * Ellipsization in PangoLayout; that is, for truncating lines by replacing text at the start middle or end of the line with an ellipsis (...) * Custom font decoders; applications can specify how characters are converted to glyphs for particular fonts * Support for setting a transformation matrix on a PangoContext and transformed rendering support for the FT2 backend * Support for OpenType fonts in the Hebrew and Thai shapers 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 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 three different font backends: - 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-1.4.0 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 depends on version 2.4.0 or better of the GLib library; more information about GLib can be found at http://www.gtk.org/. Special thanks to: Chris Blizzard [Custom font encoding decoders] Hans Breuer and Tor Lillqvist [Win32 backend maintenance] Dov Grobgeld [OpenType support for the Hebrew shaper] Theppitak Karoonboonyanan [OpenType support for the Thai shaper] Thanks to all Pango-1.6 contributors, including: Johan Dahlin, Sayamindu Dasgupta, Behdad Esfahbod, John Ehresman, Jatin Nansi, Torsten Schoenfeld, Keith Sharp, Morten Welinder Owen Taylor 13 September 2004
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