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From: marbru@auto-trol.UUCP (Martin Brunecky)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: How to Get 90 degree Rotated Fonts?
Message-ID: <863@auto-trol.UUCP>
Date: 7 Oct 90 16:07:13 GMT
References: <KHAI.90Oct4144819@snapper.adi.com>
Reply-To: marbru@auto-trol.UUCP (Martin Brunecky)
Distribution: comp.windows.x
Organization: Auto-trol Technology, Denver
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In article <KHAI.90Oct4144819@snapper.adi.com> khai@adi.com (S. Khai Mong) writes:
>How would one get a font rotated +/-90 degrees in X so that I can draw
>text running vertically?
>
>The solution should be a run-time one.  The user specifies a given
>font for an application and I wish to use that font for horz and vert
>text.  I can't and don't want to define a new font.
>--
>Sao Khai Mong:   Applied Dynamics, 3800 Stone School Road, Ann Arbor, Mi48108
>(313)973-1300    (uunet|sharkey)!amara!khai   khai@adi.com

    What about drawing all characters in your font into an off-screen bitmap,
    reading it with XGetImage, swapping rows/columns in each character,
    loading it back into (another) off-screen bitmap, and from there on
    use XCopyPlane for each character ?
   [ yeep, XPutFontBitmap would be much better, but there just ain't one,
     and the MIT guys don't like it, they want something really big and
     ugly - called "font server" ].
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