PANGO-VIEW
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: November 2009
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NAME
pango-view - Pango text viewer
 
DESCRIPTION
 
Usage:
- 
pango-view [OPTION...] - FILE
Help Options:
- -?, --help
- 
Show help options
- --help-all
- 
Show all help options
- --help-cairo
- 
Options understood by the cairo backend
Cairo backend options:
- --annotate=1 or 2
- 
Annotate the output
Application Options:
- --no-auto-dir
- 
No layout direction according to contents
- --backend=cairo/xft/ft2/x
- 
Pango backend to use for rendering (default: cairo)
- --background=red/#rrggbb/#rrggbbaa/transparent
- 
Set the background color
- -q, --no-display
- 
Do not display (just write to file or whatever)
- --dpi=number
- 
Set the resolution
- --align=left/center/right
- 
Text alignment
- --ellipsize=start/middle/end
- 
Ellipsization mode
- --font=description
- 
Set the font description
- --foreground=red/#rrggbb/#rrggbbaa
- 
Set the text color
- --gravity=south/east/north/west/auto
- 
Base gravity: glyph rotation
- --gravity-hint=natural/strong/line
- 
Gravity hint
- --header
- 
Display the options in the output
- --height=+points/-numlines
- 
Height in points (positive) or number of lines (negative) for ellipsizing
- --hinting=none/auto/full
- 
Hinting style
- --indent=points
- 
Width in points to indent paragraphs
- --justify
- 
Align paragraph lines to be justified
- --language=en_US/etc
- 
Language to use for font selection
- --margin=pixels
- 
Set the margin on the output in pixels
- --markup
- 
Interpret text as Pango markup
- -o, --output=file
- 
Save rendered image to output file
- --pangorc=file
- 
pangorc file to use (default is ./pangorc)
- --rtl
- 
Set base direction to right-to-left
- --rotate=degrees
- 
Angle at which to rotate results
- -n, --runs=integer
- 
Run Pango layout engine this many times
- --single-par
- 
Enable single-paragraph mode
- -t, --text=string
- 
Text to display (instead of a file)
- --version
- 
Show version numbers
- --waterfall
- 
Create a waterfall display
- -w, --width=points
- 
Width in points to which to wrap lines or ellipsize
- --wrap=word/char/word-char
- 
Text wrapping mode (needs a width to be set)
Pango module interface version: 1.6.0