Describe --with-cairo non-support for bitmapped fonts.

* etc/NEWS: Mention Pango's removal of support for bitmapped fonts.

Describe --with-cairo non-support for bitmapped fonts.
* etc/NEWS: Mention Pango's removal of support for bitmapped fonts.
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 ** The configure option '--with-cairo' is no longer experimental.
 This builds Emacs with Cairo drawing, and supports built-in printing
 when Emacs is built with GTK+.  Some severe bugs in this build were
-fixed, and we can therefore offer this to users without caveats.
+fixed, and we can therefore offer this to users without caveats.  Note
+that building with Cairo enabled results in using Pango instead of
+libXft for font support, and that Pango 1.44 has removed support for
+bitmapped fonts.

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 ** Emacs now uses a "portable dumper" instead of unexec.