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From: fgreco@dprg-330.GOVt.shearson.COM (Frank Greco)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: vertical text
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Date: 10 Dec 90 21:23:55 GMT
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> What I want to do is to print text in orentations other than horizontal.
> Vertical would be acceptable but, printing at various angles would be even
> better.
> 
> How does one go about doing this?  After searching through thousands of
> pages of various FMs, I did not find any examples.
> 
> Any help would be appreciated.

	If you're using Sun's and OpenWindows, you could render Postscript
	(actually NeWS) in an XView Canvas and rotate any of the (OW)
	standard outline (F3) fonts at any angle you want (this is also 
	true of vanilla X and Adobe's product Display Postscript).
	This is quite simple.  
	
	For good ole X, I'm afraid you'll have to perform geometric transforms 
	yourself (massage the bits according to the standard transformation recipe
	into an off-screen pixmap then bit-blast 'em to the screen).


	Frank G.