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Pango-1.4.0 ships with a wide selection of modules, including modules for Hebrew, Arabic, Hangul, Thai, and a number of Indic scripts.

Pango is designed to be modular the core Pango layout can be used with three different font backends: Pango's principle use has been for internationalizing the text in Gnome GUI's. Supporting output in all the world's major languages. Pango is a library that provides layout and rendering of internationalized text, that uses Unicode for its encoding and aims for Ideally the library would add no additional dependencies on us. Provided by a well-documented, well-supported, widely-available library that is actively maintained and extended by people other than us, who are very responsive to Inkscape's needs.Good support for us to build text layout algorithms (like text-along-a-path) onto.Great support for generating outlines of text objects.Extraordinarily good support for internationalized fonts (many of the bugs left from the 0.38 Bug Hunt were due to inadequacies in font handling.).

Regular font rendering, including a wide range of different font metrics.What Inkscape needs from its font rendering subsystem is: What does Inkscape really need for font rendering (perfect world)? Who's done what so far with the old code, and with Pango?.What will Inkscape be able to get from Pango?.What does Inkscape currently have that it'd replace?.What does Inkscape really need for font rendering (perfect world)?.We'll try to cover the basics to get you oriented, and provide some links to more info. Wondering what the heck Pango is, why we want it in the codebase, what needs to be done, and/or what's been done so far? Then this document is for you. Introduction to the Inkscape 0.39 Pango Rearchitecting Effort 1.7 Who's done what so far with the old code, and with Pango?.1.5 What will Inkscape be able to get from Pango?.1.4 What does Inkscape currently have that it'd replace?.1.2 What does Inkscape really need for font rendering (perfect world)?.1 Introduction to the Inkscape 0.39 Pango Rearchitecting Effort.
