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From: brsmith@cs.umn.edu (Brian R. Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: rotated text
Message-ID: <1991Mar22.182146.22225@cs.umn.edu>
Date: 22 Mar 91 18:21:46 GMT
References: <9103220518.AA05516@lightning.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>
Organization: University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, CSci dept.
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In <9103220518.AA05516@lightning.McRCIM.McGill.EDU> mouse@lightning.mcrcim.mcgill.EDU (der Mouse) writes:

>> We are looking for pointers, hints or code that will allow us to put
>> up text in a window that isn't horizontal.

>[It's the text that's to be non-horizontal, not the window.]

>From the FAQ:

>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>Subject: 110)  How do I render rotated text?
>	
>	Xlib intentionally does not provide such sophisticated
>graphics capabilities, leaving them up to server-extensions or
>clients-side graphics libraries.  	Your only choice, if you want
>to stay within the core X protocol, is to render the text into a
>pixmap, read it back via XGetImage(), rotate it "by hand" with
>whatever matrices you want, and put it back to the server via
>XPutImage(); more specifically:

On a related note:

InterViews (C++ UI toolkit, in the X contrib software) has support for
rendering rotated fonts in X.  It could be one source of example code.
(With the caveat that it is a somewhat large and complex piece of
software to go dredging through for that one specific piece of
information.)
--
Brian