Re: Pango advice?

[John Coppens <john jcoppens com>]

On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 18:07:01 +1000
kadil <ksadil bigpond net au> wrote:

> Hi, 
>
> I want to use pango in an app to render text to a drawingarea. I have
> seen examples that show how to render text in a textview, but not to a
> drawingarea. Can you specify the width of the layout to be rendered,
> into a drawingarea, with text wrapping and determine the height of the
> layout.
>
> Is there any docs that describe this, but I cannot find the info I am
> looking for. I am sure it is easy, once you know.

Look for Cairo. It's the easiest way to do it (I think).

John