Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!midway!ellis.uchicago.edu!amun
From: amun@ellis.uchicago.edu (james frederick amundson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Rotating TrueType Fonts?
Summary: built-in routines or not?
Message-ID: <1991May3.150721.15559@midway.uchicago.edu>
Date: 3 May 91 15:07:21 GMT
Sender: news@midway.uchicago.edu (NewsMistress)
Organization: University of Chicago
Lines: 11

I have heard several rumors about TrueType's (lack of) ability to
draw rotated text.  Would someone who really *knows* enlighten me? I
know that text rotation can be accomplished at the bitmap level, but
it is obviously much better to do it at the outline level. (Yeah,
yeah, for 90 degree increments the end result will look the same...) ATM
has special calls to tell it to draw at an arbitrary angle.  Does
TrueType have some hidden (or not so hidden) features like this, or is
it inferior in this aspect?

--Jim Amundson
  amun@midway.uchicago.edu