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From: klee@wsl.dec.com (Ken Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: rotation of text
Message-ID: <1990Jul11.165751.16616@wrl.dec.com>
Date: 11 Jul 90 16:57:51 GMT
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In article <1990Jul11.140141.10466@kodak.kodak.com>, tiefel@kodak.kodak.com
(Lenny Tiefel) writes:
|> Is there a way to rotate text with xlib?
|> I want to take a string and rotate it by 90 degrees.

No.  Xlib intentionally does not provide sophisticated graphics
capabilities.  These are provided by both server extensions (PEX,
Display PostScript) and client-side graphics libraries (GKS, PHIGS).
Different vendors support different graphics systems.  Contact your
vendor for details.

Ken Lee
DEC Western Software Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif.
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