Pango-1.12.0 is now available for download at: ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.10/ 86c3e08169a18200e64a0c5ee1be7fd9 pango-1.12.0.tar.bz2 3bb2dc0ec60e9673f2f7b6894b3d1caa pango-1.12.0.tar.gz This is a stable release providing new functionality as compared to Pango-1.10, while maintaining source and binary compatibility. Notable improvements in Pango since version 1.10 include: * Addition of a cairo+ATSUI backend for rendering using native fonts on MacOS X platform. * Lots of optimizations. The PangoLayout operations should be around 30% or more faster. * Improved robustness. Pango almost doesn't crash anymore, even in very hard conditions that fonts are missing or unusable. * Supporting OpenType layout features for basic scripts like Latin/Greek/Cyrillic. * Installing a simple tool called pango-view which is mostly useful for testing purposes. It is suggested that distributions include it in their devel package for the least. 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. (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 1.12.0 depends on version 2.10.0 or newer of the GLib library; more information about GLib can be found at http://www.gtk.org/. Bugs should be reported to http://bugzilla.gnome.org/. Special thanks to: Billy Biggs [Optimization] Anders Carlsson [ATSUI backend] Matthias Clasen [General assistance] Antoine Dopffer [General assistance] Tor Lillqvist [Win32 backend] Federico Mena Quintero [Optimization] Owen Taylor [Discussion] Thanks to all Pango-1.12 contributors, including: Jean Brefort, Hans Breuer, Brian Cameron, LingNing Zhang Behdad Esfahbod 13 March 2006 _______________________________________________ gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
