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PANGO-VIEW(1) Pango commands PANGO-VIEW(1)

NAME

pango-view - Pango text viewer

SYNOPSIS

pango-view [OPTIONS...] FILE

DESCRIPTION

pango-view formats a text using Pango, with options to exercise most of Pango's layout features.

HELP OPTIONS

-h, --help

Show help options.


--help-all

Show all help options.


--help-cairo

Show help for options understood by the cairo backend.


--version

Print the command's version and exit.


CAIRO BACKEND OPTIONS

--annotate=FLAGS

Annotate the output. Comma-separated list of gravity, progression, baselines, layout, line, run, cluster, char, glyph, caret, slope


APPLICATION OPTIONS

--no-auto-dir

No layout direction according to contents.


--backend=cairo/xft/ft2

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

Set text alignment.


--ellipsize=start/middle/end

Set ellipsization mode.


--font=description

Set the font description.


--foreground=red/#rrggbb/#rrggbbaa

Set the text color.


--gravity=south/east/north/west/auto

Set base gravity: glyph rotation.


--gravity-hint=natural/strong/line

Set gravity hint.


--header

Display the options in the output.


--height=+points/-numlines

Set height in points (positive) or number of lines (negative) for ellipsizing.


--hinting=none/auto/slight/medium/full

Set hinting style.


--antialias=none/gray/subpixel

Set antialiasing.


--hint-metrics=on/off

Set hint metrics.


--subpixel-positions

Set subpixel positioning.


--subpixel-order=rgb/bgr/vrgb/vbgr

Set subpixel order.


--indent=points

Set paragraph indentation (in points).


--spacing=points

Set line spacing (in points).


--line-spacing=factor

Set spread factor for line height.


--justify

Stretch paragraph lines to be justified.


--justify-last-line

Justify the last line of the paragraph.


--language=en_US/etc

Set language to use for font selection.


--margin=CSS-style numbers in pixels

Set the margin on the output in pixels.


--markup

Interpret text as Pango markup.


-o, --output=file

Save rendered image to output file.


--pixels

Use pixel units instead of points (sets dpi to 72).


--pango-units

Use Pango units instead of points.


--rtl

Set base direction to right-to-left.


--rotate=degrees

Set 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).


--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).


--serialized=FILE

Create layout from a serialized file,


--serialize-to=FILE

Serialize result to a file.


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