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| author | Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny@eglug.org> | 2018-02-17 12:12:04 +0200 |
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| committer | Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny@eglug.org> | 2018-02-17 12:13:38 +0200 |
| commit | 505eeb7b89cce51ec1226de399c4e772433d3cb6 (patch) | |
| tree | b63fee05092ba3195ef665559d31a2d6d0bc55ef | |
| parent | bd2fd257f9f6f7ce095caa6c5c0e4332ef3cba75 (diff) | |
| download | pango-505eeb7b89cce51ec1226de399c4e772433d3cb6.tar.gz | |
Update README a bit
Fix FontConfig casing, remove a dead link and outdated sections.
| -rw-r--r-- | README | 38 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 34 deletions
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ Pango is designed to be modular; the core Pango layout 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. + - 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. @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ be found at http://www.gtk.org/. To use the Free Software stack backend, Pango depends on the following libraries: - * fontconfig for font discovery (http://www.fontconfig.org), + * FontConfig for font discovery (http://www.fontconfig.org), * FreeType for font access (http://www.freetype.org), @@ -59,42 +59,12 @@ do X-specific rendering using the Xft library. The Xft backend uses version 2 of the Xft library to manage client side fonts. Version 2 of Xft is available from http://xlibs.freedesktop.org/release/. You'll need the libXft package, and possibly the libXrender and renderext -packages as well. You'll also need fontconfig (see below.) +packages as well. You'll also need FontConfig. -Installation of Pango on Win32 is possible, but is not documented -here. See http://www.gimp.org/~tml/gimp/win32/downloads.html - -Notes -===== - - - By default, Pango tries to build itself so that no explicit - dependency on Xft or FreeType will be introduced in apps that - link to Pango. This is to avoid compatibility problems with - changes in the Xft or FreeType API's or ABI's. Specifying - --enable-explicit-deps or --enable-static when configuring Pango - will defeat this and should be avoided if possible. +Installation of Pango on Win32 is possible, see README.win32. License ======= Most of the code of Pango is licensed under the terms of the GNU Lesser Public License (LGPL) - see the file COPYING for details. - -The OpenType code in pango/opentype is derived from the FreeType -project (http://www.freetype.org) and is dual-licensed under the -GNU General Public License and the FreeType license. See see -pango/opentype/FT-license.txt for full details of the FreeType -license. - -Note that binary distributions of Pango must include a disclaimer -that the software is based in part of the work of the FreeType Team, -in the distribution documentation; for instance, by including this -README file. - -Owen Taylor -otaylor@redhat.com - -Behdad Esfahbod -behdad@gnome.org - -20 August 2012 |