Pango(3)						User Contributed Perl Documentation						  Pango(3)

NAME

       Pango - 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');

ABSTRACT

       Pango 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/>.]

DOCUMENTATION

       Pango 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 v5.12.1							    2009-08-11								  Pango(3)