Re: Has the pango_itemize call changed since libpango 1.8? We now get severe valgrind issues (invalid read and others) associated with this call.

["Alan W. Irwin" <irwin beluga phys uvic ca>]

On 2007-03-26 12:51-0400 Owen Taylor wrote:

> My general recommendation is:
>
> - Use PangoLayout unless you need something that is very different from
>   rectangular paragraphs of text. (Single unwrapped lines or strings
>   are a subset of rectangular paragaphs...)
> - Use cairo for Postscript output instead of rolling your own on top
>   of PangoFT2.

Thanks Owen for your most helpful and detailed response.  I will forward
your e-mail in its entirety to the lasi-dev list, and we will mull over your
recommendations there.

Alan
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