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From: casseres@Apple.COM (David Casseres)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: Vertical Text?
Keywords: TE Vertical
Message-ID: <346@internal.Apple.COM>
Date: 20 Dec 88 18:24:57 GMT
References: <1082@ccnysci.UUCP>
Distribution: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <1082@ccnysci.UUCP> cpyang@ccnysci.UUCP (Chao Ping Yang) writes:
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>	Can somebody tell me how to draw Text with a rotation?
>	Or is there a way to CopyBits with a rotation?

The Toolbox provides no way to do this.  You have to draw the text
in normal orientation in an offscreen bitmap, then rotate the image
into another offscreen bitmap by doing tiresome bit manipulations.

A good graphics text should give you an algorithm or two, especially
for the 90-degree rotations.  The hard part is to make the rotation
fast.

David Casseres