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From: cgordon@vpnet.chi.il.us (Gordon Hlavenka)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Printing vertical text in Windows
Message-ID: <2703c40f-541.1comp.windows.ms-1@vpnet.chi.il.us>
Date: 28 Sep 90 21:55:06 GMT
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>Surely someone has run into this problem before.  How do you get both
>horizontal and vertical fonts on printers such as the HP Laserjet
>from MS Windows?

WordPerfect will print mixed text orientations.  The trick is to place the
different rotations in WP "boxes" and rotate the boxes.  WP has a
(semi-)WYSIWYG screen function which displays the rotations.  The screen
appearance of the fonts is determined by a complicated description in the
printer setup file.

Unfortunately, WP will only rotate the text if the _printer_ is capable of
it.  Since WP will graphically create unusual characters on any
graphics-capable printer I wouldn't be surprised to find a couple of generic
rotatable fonts graphically produced in a future rev.

This isn't really a Windows solution, since WP isn't a Windows program.  But
WP does run under Windows.   A Windows version of WP is rumored...

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Gordon S. Hlavenka            cgordon@vpnet.chi.il.us
Disclaimer:                Yeah, I said it.  So what?