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From: david@lta.lta.com (David B. Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: - Drawing rotated text - any ideas?
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Date: 28 Mar 91 19:12:47 GMT
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> I specifically need to draw text rotated 90 degrees - I was wondering if

The FAQ in comp.windows.x discusses this. Either you can render to a pixmap
and rotate it, or you can pre-construct a rotated font and render that
directly, calculating the position of each character.

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