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From: p_davis@epik.enet.dec.com (Peter Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x.motif
Subject: Re: Drawing rotated text - any ideas?
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Date: 29 Mar 91 16:38:53 GMT
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In article <9354@castle.ed.ac.uk>, mip@castle.ed.ac.uk (M I Parsons) writes...
>I'm currently converting a large device display program from VAX UIS to
>Motif/X Windows. UIS has the ability to draw text at any given angle. X
>doesn't. :-(

Since you're running on VMS, you should be able to use the Display PostScript
extension.  This is an extension to the X Server to support PostScript
functions.  It's very easy to draw text at any angle, and at any size, and to
take advantages of all the graphics features of the PostScript language.

Depending on your current version of VMS, you may have to upgrade to get this.
Contact your local DEC office for information.

-pd