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From: darren@cbmvax.commodore.com (Darren Greenwald)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: Bitmapped font scaling?  AmigaMail!
Message-ID: <22736@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 27 Jun 91 15:11:59 GMT
References: <1124.2867637f@vger.nsu.edu> <22695@cbmvax.commodore.com> <1991Jun27.104700.24636@wehi.dn.mu.oz>
Reply-To: darren@cbmvax.commodore.com (Darren Greenwald)
Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <1991Jun27.104700.24636@wehi.dn.mu.oz> baxter_a@wehi.dn.mu.oz writes:
>In article <22695@cbmvax.commodore.com>, johno@cbmvax.commodore.com (John Orr - CATS) writes:
>> In article <1124.2867637f@vger.nsu.edu> manes@vger.nsu.edu ((Mark D. Manes), Norfolk State University) writes:
>>>
>>>asl.library.  Did anyone notice besides myself that, according to the
>> 
>> This is true.
>
>Great! So do we also have font rotation? (Even just 90 deg would be nice)
>

What do you want to rotate?  The font data, or the output from Text()?

I suspect what you want is to have a line of text rotated before
its drawn in the layer - actually you can do that now if your
willing to do the rotation (e.g., draw in an off-screen map,
rotate, and BltTemplate() rotated image into visible layer).
You could use DPAINT's rotation feature to get a feel for how fast, 
or slow it might be done.

The bitmap scale routines actually create a new font with scaled data.
There is therefore no performance penality for using a scaled font
(other than the initial scaling).

Rotation of a line on the other hand has to be done on the fly.


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