Pango

Category: Analysis-Text Rendering

Description

Pango is a library for laying out and rendering of text, with an emphasis on internationalization. Pango can be used anywhere that text layout is needed, though most of the work on Pango so far has been done in the context of the GTK+ widget toolkit. Pango forms the core of text and font handling for GTK+-2.x.

Pango is designed to be modular; the core Pango layout engine can be used with different font backends. There are three basic backends, with multiple options for rendering with each.

  • Client side fonts using the FreeType and fontconfig libraries. Rendering can be with with Cairo or Xft libraries, or directly to an in-memory buffer with no additional libraries.
  • Native fonts on Microsoft Windows using Uniscribe for complex-text handling. Rendering can be done via Cairo or directly using the native Win32 API.
  • Native fonts on MacOS X using ATSUI for complex-text handling, rendering via Cairo.

    The integration of Pango with Cairo (http://cairographics.org/) provides a complete solution with high quality text handling and graphics rendering.

    Use

      module avail pango
      module display pango
      module load pango
    

    Support

    This package has the following support level : Unsupported

    Available Versions

    Version Available Builds
    pgi gnu pathscale Other
    1.20.5
    v