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From: houpt@husc8.HARVARD.EDU (Thomas Houpt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Rotating Text
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Date: 17 Jan 90 05:53:30 GMT
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 I may have missed something somewhere, but how do you rotate text
 under Quickdraw? I just want to write characters along a vertical
 baseline. All the other graphic interfaces I've worked with allowed
 you to specify a baseline for text to be drawn along. I know it
 can be done, since lots of applications support rotating text.
 My planned hack is to draw the text to an off-screen bit-map, then
 rotate the pixels "by hand" before copying them to the screen.
 Is there a more elegant solution (aside from (I hope) system 7?).

 Tom Houpt
 houpt@husc8.harvard.edu