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@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Pango is a library for layout and rendering of text, with an emphasis on internationalization. Pango can be used anywhere that text layout -is needed; however, most of the work on Pango-1.0 was done using the -GTK+ widget toolkit as a test platform. Pango forms the core of text +is needed; however, most of the work on Pango so far has been done using +the GTK+ widget toolkit as a test platform. Pango forms the core of text and font handling for GTK+-2.x. Pango is designed to be modular; the core Pango layout can be used @@ -28,15 +28,13 @@ For more information about Pango, see: Dependencies ============ -Pango depends on version 2.4.0 of the GLib library; more information -about GLib can be found at http://www.gtk.org/. +Pango depends on version 2.4.0 or new of the GLib library; more +information about GLib can be found at http://www.gtk.org/. -The recommended font backend for X in Pango-1.4 is the Xft backend +The supported font backend for X in Pango-1.4 is the Xft backend which uses version 2 of the Xft library to manage client -side fonts. Benefits of the Xft backend include, performance, -support for OpenType fonts, and antialiasing. Version 2 of -Xft is available from http://fontconfig.org/. Along with -Xft, you'll need to install its dependency fontconfig, and +side fonts. Version 2 of Xft is available from http://fontconfig.org/ +Along with Xft, you'll need to install its dependency fontconfig, and possibly also the Xrender library, if that doesn't come with your system. Both of these libraries are available from the same place as fontconfig. @@ -44,7 +42,7 @@ the same place as fontconfig. Note that an earlier version of Xft is shipped with version of XFree86 up to 4.2. This version does not work with Pango-1.4; Pango-1.4 requires version 2 of Xft, which is present in XFree86-4.3 -and newer. +and newer and in X11R6.7 and X11R6.8. Both Xft and the optional PangoFT2 backend require the fontconfig library (http://www.fontconfig.org) to look up fonts. At least version @@ -90,4 +88,4 @@ README file. Owen Taylor otaylor@redhat.com -16 March 2004 +13 September 2004 |