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From: klee@wsl.dec.com (Ken Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re:  X/DEC WINDOWS : HELP
Message-ID: <1990Jul2.190104.15224@wrl.dec.com>
Date: 2 Jul 90 19:01:04 GMT
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In article <9007010722.AA06006@Larry.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>,
mouse@LARRY.MCRCIM.MCGILL.EDU (der Mouse) writes:
|> The core X protocol does not support any sort of non-horizontal[%]
|> text.  (Various extensions, such as the Display PostScript present in
|> Sun's X11/NeWS, do.  If you're willing to commit yourself to such a
|> platform, you may be able to use one of them.  I don't know whether DEC
|> has such support available or not.)

DEC supports Display PostScript, licensed from Adobe.  You can use that
to rotate text.  I think IBM and NeXT also support Display PostScript.
Last I heard, Sun did not.  X11/NeWS uses some similar ideas, but is not
compatible.

Ken Lee
DEC Western Software Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif.
Internet: klee@wsl.dec.com
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