hwp_pangomonium

Pangomonium 1.0
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Pangomonium is a plugin for Hollywood that features an advanced text rendering
engine which makes it possible to draw text in almost every language of the
world. 
It supports complex layouts like the right-to-left or bidirectional ones found
in the Arabic and Hebrew languages or vertical
layouts in columns like in Japanese. Pangomonium can also handle complex-text
languages like Hindi and fonts that contain colored glyphs (emojis) are
supported as well. 
By giving you full access to the Pango API the plugin also enables you to
customize all stages of the text rendering process.

On top of that, Pangomonium also provides Hollywood wrappers for almost all
functions of the popular Cairo graphics engine, allowing you to access advanced
vector graphics drawing features directly from Hollywood scripts.
Using the Cairo API via Pangomonium has the advantage that you have fine-tuned
control over everything when drawing vector graphics.

There are two ways of using Pangomonium: There is a high-level interface that
can directly hook itself into Hollywood's text and vector graphics library,
enhancing it with features provided by Pangomonium, e.g. drawing colored emojis
or text with complex layouts such as Arabic or Japanese. 
This is the most convenient way of using Pangomonium because you don't have to
use the Pango and Cairo functions directly here but you can just use established
Hollywood functions.

Another way of using Pangomonium is the low-level interface: This interface
allows you to access the Pango and Cairo APIs directly from Hollywood scripts. 
This is extremely powerful because it allows you to access hundreds of different
text and graphics rendering features, making it possible to fine-tune
Pangomonium to your specific needs. 
Pangomonium contains over 500 commands to make all your text and vector graphics
rendering dreams come true!

Finally, Pangomonium comes with extensive documentation in various formats like
PDF, HTML, AmigaGuide, and CHM that contains detailed descriptions of all
functions and methods offered by the plugin.

All of this makes Pangomonium the ultimate text and graphics rendering engine
for Hollywood that contains everything you need to draw text in any language
spoken on the planet.

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Released on 17-Mar-2024 by Andreas Falkenhahn <andreas()airsoftsoftwair.de>
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