Pango
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This article is about computing. For other meanings see Pango (disambiguation).
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Pango name screenshot |
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Developer: | Behdad Esfahbod |
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Latest release: | 1.14.6 / 12 October 2006 |
OS: | Unix-like |
Use: | Text rendering |
License: | LGPL |
Website: | www.pango.org |
Pango is an open source computing library for rendering internationalized texts in high quality, integrated into GTK+ 2. Different font backends can be used, allowing cross-platform support.
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[edit] Name
The name pango is from Greek "Pan" (Παν; lit. all) + Japanese "Go" (語; lit. language), also Latin "pangere" (to fasten).
[edit] Text and graphics
Complete text handling and graphics rendering is provided when integrated with Cairo.
[edit] See also
- Uniscribe (Windows multilingual text rendering engine)
- WorldScript (Old Macintosh multilingual text rendering engine)
- Apple Type Services for Unicode Imaging (New Macintosh multilingual text rendering engine)
- Graphite (multiplatform open source renderer from SIL)
- Cairo (graphics) a vector-based graphics library with multiple backends
[edit] External links
Categories: GNOME stubs | C libraries | GNOME | Unicode | Digital typography | GTK