Pango-1.7.0 is now available for download at: ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/gtk/v2.5/ pango-1.7.0.tar.bz2 md5sum: 8659fc52457a86f57878c5018140744a pango-1.7.0.tar.gz md5sum: c82e6099c49e24b28a30296e36757000 This is a development release leading up to Pango-1.8.0, which will be released together with GTK+-2.8. The major change in this release is PangoRenderer, a base object holding the logic for rendering PangoLayout which was previously duplicated in many places. Also in this release, support has been added for the Lao and Syriac scripts. 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-1.6. If you have problems, you'll need to reinstall Pango-1.6.0 * 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 usage so far as been in the context of the GTK+ widget toolkit. Pango forms the core of text and font handling for GTK+ 2. Pango is designed to be modular; the core Pango layout can be used with three different font backends: - Client-side fonts on X using the Xft2 library - Direct rendering of scalable fonts using the FreeType library - Native fonts on Microsoft platforms Dynamically loaded modules then handle text layout for particular combinations of script and font backend. Pango-1.7 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 depends on version 2.4.0 or newer of the GLib library; more information about GLib can be found at http://www.gtk.org/. Overview of changes between 1.6.x and 1.7.0 =========================================== * Add PangoRenderer, a subclassable driver object holding the logic for rendering PangoLayout. * Support transformed rendering for the Xft backend * Add Lao support in Thai Module [Theppitak Karoonboonyanan] * Support Thai OpenType fonts [Theppitak] * Add Syriac module [Emil Soleyman-Zomalan] * Add underline-color and strikethrough-color attributes [Morten Welinder] * Add pango_win32_render_transformed() [Hans Breuer] * Misc fixes [Hans Breuer, Matthias Clasen, Manish Singh, Morten Welinder] * Documentation improvements Overview of stable-branch changes since 1.6.0 ============================================= * Fix several problem when computing font and selecting fonts metrics for CJK [Felipe Heidrich, Federic Zhang] * Win32 bug fixes [Tor Lillqvist, Kazuki Iwamoto, Ivan Wong] * Misc bug fixes [Paolo Borelli, Behdad Esfahbod, Leon Ho, Arun M, Kjartan Maraas, Vincent Noel, Christian Persch, Enrico Scholz] Owen Taylor 2 December 2004
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