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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 2003-2011, 2014 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 LICENSE file in the top-level directory of this distribution
       for the full license terms.

perl v5.42.0                      2025-07-13                          Pango(3)