A million thanks for the constant work on Pango, and specially the time spent on fixing bug 385168.
Cheers, Matt On 5/31/07, Behdad Esfahbod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Pango-1.17.1 is now available for download at: > > http://download.gnome.org/sources/pango/1.17/ > or > ftp://ftp.gtk.org/pub/pango/1.17 > > 65861273a8e777f125ebfb4cc4d7acfe pango-1.17.1.tar.bz2 > 54b756fb073d496d079becf8ae3eb2cf pango-1.17.1.tar.gz > > This is the a development release in a series leading to > Pango-1.18.0, which will be released just in time for > GNOME-2.20. > > > Notes: > > * This is unstable development release. While it has had > fairly extensive testing, there are likely bugs > remaining to be found. This release should not be used > in production. > > * Installing this version will overwrite your existing > copy of Pango. If you have problems, you'll need > to reinstall Pango-1.16.x > > * Bugs should be reported to http://bugzilla.gnome.org. > > About Pango > =========== > > 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, though most of the work on Pango so far has been done in > the context of the GTK+ widget toolkit. Pango forms the core of text > and font handling for GTK+-2.x. > > Pango is designed to be modular; the core Pango layout engine 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. > 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 for > complex-text handling. Rendering can be done via Cairo or > directly using the native Win32 API. > > - Native fonts on MacOS X, rendering via Cairo. > > The integration of Pango with Cairo (http://cairographics.org) > provides a complete solution with high quality text handling > and graphics rendering. > > Dynamically loaded modules then handle text layout for particular > combinations of script and font backend. Pango ships with 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. > > As well as the low level layout rendering routines, Pango includes > PangoLayout, a high level driver for laying out entire blocks of text, > and routines to assist in editing internationalized text. > > More information about Pango is available from http://www.pango.org/. > Bugs should be reported to http://bugzilla.gnome.org. > > Pango 1.17 depends on version 2.12.0 or newer of the GLib > library and version 1.2.6 or newer of the cairo library (if the > cairo backend is desired); more information about GLib and cairo > can be found at http://www.gtk.org/ and http://cairographics.org/ > respectively. > > Overview of changes between 1.17.0 and 1.17.1 > ============================================== > > - Ported the rest of OpenType shapers to the new OpenType APIs and > added standard features to them: Hebrew, Indic, Khmer, Thai, and Tibetan. > > - Added N'Ko support to the Arabic module. [Eugeniy Meshcheryakov] > > - Small Indic module fix for Malayalam. > > - Fixed font metrics returned by the ATSUI backend. [Richard Hult] > > - Make itemization use pango_language_get_default() if context has no > language set on it. Ditto for pango_context_get_metrics() if both > input language and context language are NULL. > > - Improved documentation on vertical text, also added stability note > to those parts of Pango API that are not indefinitely stable (shaper > and language engine APIs). > > - Misc bug fixes. > > - New OpenType engine API: > > pango_ot_ruleset_get_feature_count() > > - Bugs fixed in this release: > > Bug 357790 – Rendering problem for malayalam consonant RA (U+0D30) > Bug 385168 – indic, khmer, and tibetan modules don't apply ccmp > Bug 385477 – kern feature is not supported in OpenType layout for > Tibetan. > Bug 433805 - [Atsui] Approximate char/digit width width often 0 > Bug 436699 – N'Ko support > Bug 438705 – Test runs non-existent "/bin/bash" on HP-UX 11.11 > Bug 438814 – synaptic crash with pango 1.17.0 > Bug 440603 – Minor ABI change > > 30 May 2007 > Behdad Esfahbod > > _______________________________________________ > gtk-list mailing list > gtk-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list > > > _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
