A million thanks for the constant work on Pango, and specially thetime spent on fixing bug 385168. Cheers,Matt On 5/31/07, Behdad Esfahbod <besfahbo@xxxxxxxxxx> 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>> _______________________________________________> gtk-list mailing list> gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx> http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list>>>_______________________________________________gtk-list mailing listgtk-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
