Re: Using Pango for Batch Processing

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 19:23 +0200, Joshua Harvey wrote:
>  
> Hi guys,
> 
> 
> I'm interested in using Pango to set type in OpenType fonts to be
> saved as PNG images. I've done some googling and I can't find any
> examples on how to use the library or pango-view to do this without
> GTK. The idea is to use either pango-view or the Pango Ruby wrapper to
> convert text into PNGs on the fly from a linux server that's not
> running gtk, for use as titles in web pages.
>  
> 
> 
> I've got pango-view installed, but when I run it I get:
> 
> 
> % pango-view -q --text "hi there" -o hi.png
> 
>     pango-view: Cannot open display
>  
> 
> 
> Any pointers would be great!

I'd suggest filing a bug - it should be pretty simple to fix in
pango-view... probably just never tested.

(That's not an immediate answer to your question, obviously.)

- Owen