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@@ -12,11 +12,12 @@ multiple options for rendering with each. 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 if available for - complex script handling. Rendering can be done via Cairo or - directly using the native Win32 API. + - Native fonts on Microsoft Windows using Uniscribe for complex + script handling. Rendering can be done via Cairo or directly + using the native Win32 API. - - Native fonts on MacOS X, rendering via Cairo. + - Native fonts on MacOS X with the CoreText framework, rendering via + Cairo. The integration of Pango with Cairo (http://cairographics.org) provides a complete solution with high quality text handling @@ -39,10 +40,14 @@ Dependencies Pango depends on the GLib library; more information about GLib can be found at http://www.gtk.org/. -When using client side fonts, the fontconfig library -(http://www.fontconfig.org) to look up fonts. At least version 2.0.9 -of the FreeType font handling library (http://www.freetype.org) is -also required. +To use the Free Software stack backend, Pango depends on the following +libraries: + + * fontconfig for font discovery (http://www.fontconfig.org), + + * FreeType for font access (http://www.freetype.org), + + * HarfBuzz for complex text shaping (http://www.harfbuzz.org/) Cairo support depends on the Cairo library (http://cairographics.org). The Cairo backend is the preferred backend to use Pango with and is @@ -92,4 +97,4 @@ otaylor@redhat.com Behdad Esfahbod behdad@gnome.org -26 February 2007 +20 August 2012 |