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From: oster@dewey.soe.berkeley.edu (David Phillip Oster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Rotating Text
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Date: 19 Jan 90 03:50:41 GMT
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In article <1274@husc6.harvard.edu> houpt@husc8.UUCP (Thomas Houpt) writes:
> 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?).

Nope, you've got the right way to do it under the current and past system
software. There was an article in MacTutor magazine that gave source code
for this (It showed TextEdit remapped to do all 4 90 degree rotations,
simultaneously.) I think it was last year. Great article.

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