Pango

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Pango
Pango name screenshot
Developer:	Behdad Esfahbod
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.

Contents 1 Utilisation 2 Name 3 Text and graphics 4 See also 5 References 6 External links

[edit] Utilisation

It has been integrated into a number of Linux distributions, most notably providing the rendering for text in the Mozilla Firefox web browser and Mozilla Thunderbird mail client in Fedora Core 6 amongst others. Special permission was granted by the Mozilla Corporation as Pango has so far not been included in the Mozilla source code.^[1]

[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] References

[edit] External links

• Pango homepage
• Pango reference manual
• Pango introduction