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From: oivindt@bio.uio.no (Oivind Toien)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer,comp.lang.pascal
Subject: Writing vertical text with a non-stroked font
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Date: 19 Apr 91 14:48:56 GMT
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I am trying to output vertical text to the screen initiated with the
CreateFontIndirect procedure. Setting the parameters
lfOrientation:=900; and lfEscapement:=900; makes stroked fonts (Roman,
Script and Modern) appear vertical. This does however not work with
the bit-mapped fonts, and not with the corresponding fonts on a system
where ATM was installed. The example I modified (GDIDEMO.PAS that came
with TP for Windows) uses the TextOut procedure. I have tried to play
with the other parameters in TLogFont with no improvement.

EXCEL 3.0 is however able to do this, and it seems that they do not
use special fonts. (I may be wrong here).

Am I missing something here? If it is not possible to do this now
(except using non-standard fonts and techniques), will this improve
when we get true-type?

Any comment will be appreciated. I will need vertical text on the Y-axis
for a plotting-program.

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Oivind Toien   <oivindt@ulrik.uio.no>
Div. of General Physiology, Dept. of Biology, Univ. of Oslo
P.O. Box 1051, N-0316 Oslo 3, NORWAY  
Phone+47-2-454732  Fax+47-2-454726