Re: Drawing text using Pango on bitmap without gtk

[John Cupitt <jcupitt gmail com>]

On 7/2/05, Himanshu Garg <himanshu garg gmail com> wrote:
>       I am trying to draw Telugu text on a bitmap using Pango in
> Windows. However I couldn't find any function in the library that does
> just that.
> 
>       Searches in the mailing list suggest the pangoft2 example which
> I have seen. However I am not using the freetype library and the
> example doesn't seem to be of much help.

My understanding is that pango doesn't do any pixel rendering, it
relies on back ends like ft2 for that.

I use pangoft2 on windows and it works well. I used the code in
pango-xx/examples/pangoft2topgm.c as a start point.

John