Pango(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation Pango(3)NAMEPango - Layout and render international text
SYNOPSIS
my $surface = Cairo::ImageSurface->create ('argb32', 200, 100);
my $cr = Cairo::Context->create ($surface);
my $layout = Pango::Cairo::create_layout ($cr);
$layout->set_text ("\x{03A0}\x{03B1}\x{03BD}\x{8A9E}");
my $font = Pango::FontDescription->from_string ('Serif Bold 27');
$layout->set_font_description ($font);
Pango::Cairo::show_layout($cr, $layout);
$surface->write_to_png ('pango.png');
ABSTRACTPango is a library for laying out and rendering text, with an emphasis
on internationalization. Pango can be used anywhere that text layout is
needed, but using Pango in conjunction with Cairo and/or Gtk2 provides
a complete solution with high quality text handling and graphics
rendering.
Dynamically loaded modules handle text layout for particular
combinations of script and font backend. Pango provides a wide
selection of modules, including modules for Hebrew, Arabic, Hangul,
Thai, and a number of Indic scripts. Virtually all of the world's major
scripts are supported.
In addition to the low level layout rendering routines, Pango includes
Pango::Layout, a high level driver for laying out entire blocks of
text, and routines to assist in editing internationalized text.
[Adapted from <http://www.pango.org/>.]
DOCUMENTATIONPango tries to stick very close in spirit to the C API of the
underlying pango library. Thus, the manual available at
<http://library.gnome.org/devel/pango/stable/> also applies to this
module. Additionally, API listings in POD form are generated during
compilation for each of the sub-modules. An index of those POD pages
is available at Pango::index.
SEE ALSO
perl, Glib, Cairo, Gtk2.
Pango::index lists the autogenerated API documentation pod files for
Pango.
<http://www.pango.org/> is the homepage of the pango C library. Its
API documentation is available at
<http://library.gnome.org/devel/pango/stable/>.
AUTHORS
muppet <scott at asofyet dot org>
Torsten Schoenfeld <kaffeetisch at gmx dot de>
Marc Lehmann <pcg at goof dot com>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Copyright 2003-2008 by the gtk2-perl team.
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU Library General Public License as published
by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
Library General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU Library General Public
License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307
USA.
perl v5.14.1 2009-08-11 Pango(3)
