Man1 - pango-view.1
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NAME
pango-view - “Pango text viewer”
DESCRIPTION
Usage:
pango-view [OPTION?] - FILE
Help Options:
- -h, –help
- Show help options
- –help-all
- Show all help options
- –help-cairo
- Options understood by the cairo backend
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
- 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/slight/medium/full
- Hinting style
- *–antialias*=/none//gray/subpixel
- Antialiasing
- *–hint-metrics*=/on//off
- Hint metrics
- –subpixel-positions
- Subpixel positioning
- *–subpixel-order*=/rgb//bgr/vrgb/vbgr
- Subpixel order
- *–indent*=/points/
- Width in points to indent paragraphs
- *–spacing*=/points/
- Spacing in points between lines
- *–line-spacing*=/factor/
- 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
- 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/
- 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)
- –serialized
- Create layout from a serialized file