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.