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From: jh@ist.CO.UK (Jeremy Huxtable)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Rotated text on the Mac
Message-ID: <2898@istop.ist.CO.UK>
Date: 30 Apr 91 09:45:02 GMT
Article-I.D.: istop.2898
Organization: Imperial Software Technology, London, UK
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I need to be able to draw rotated text on the Mac. Now the obvious solution
is to draw into an offscreen bitmap, rotate it and then CopyBits it, but
surely in these days of Adobe Type manager and TrueType, there must be a
better way if they happen to be installed??? I assume that this must be an
FAQ, but I haven't been reading the news for a while so apologies if this
has been discussed recently.

Can I tell if ATM or TrueType are installed?
Can I use them to draw rotated text, falling back on bitmap rotation
as a last resort?
Does ATM, for example, spot the LaserWriter rotated text comments in
pictures drawn by QuickDraw?

The ideal method would be to get the path information back from ATM/TrueType
but I assume that this is impossible because the manufacturers wish to
protect their fonts.

Any help on this would be appreciated,

Jeremy Huxtable