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From: kit@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris D. Peterson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Novice text question
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Date: 6 Feb 89 20:58:54 GMT
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> I've just started using X and I have a question about drawing
> text: is there a simple way to change the text path (e.g. I want
> the characters to go down the page rather than from left to right),
> and is there a simple way to rotate characters (just 90 degree
> rotations are sufficient for now).  Any help would be much
> appreciated.

There is no simple way to do any of these things.

The main reason comes from the assumption that everything is pixel based in
X, thus fonts just tell the server which pixels to turn on and off.  This 
makes rotating text difficult.  There is work being done to add a display
postscript extension to the server that would make things like this
much easier.

						Chris D. Peterson     
						MIT X Consortium /
						Project Athena 

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