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From: steve@violet.berkeley.edu (Steve Goldfield)
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Subject: Re: Superpaint 1.1 upside down text
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Date: 24 May 89 15:46:33 GMT
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In article <713@occrsh.ATT.COM> jdsb@occrsh.ATT.COM (John_Babcock) writes:
#>
#>    I have had some difficulty with SuperPaint 1.1.  I cannot seem to
#>invert text in the draw mode.  I enter the text, select it, and choose
#>both flip horizontally and flip vertically.  SP thinks about it but does
#>not change the selected item.  I entered the text in the draw mode, too.
#>Mac Draw does this fine, but not SuperPaint.  Can anyone tell me what I'm
#>doing wrong?  By the way, flip horiz. and flip vert. are not dimmed
#>on the menu as some other items are, so I assume they are functional.
#>Thanks to all.
#>                   John
#>P.S. Mac SE sys 6.0.2
#>____________________________________________________________________________
#>* John Babcock           att!occrsh!jdsb
#>* AT&T Network Systems   jdsb@occrsh.att.com
#>* Oklahoma City, OK      Disclaimer:  I speak on my own, not as AT&T.

The answer is that you copy the text to paint and then invert it.
Note, however, that the flipped text won't be precisely the same
size as the original. I use this technique to make table markers.
Create the text in draw mode. Copy to Paint. Flip vertical and
horizontal.

Superpaint 2.0 does flip text in draw mode, however. My
recollection is that MacDraw also flipped text even in
its old version.

Steve Goldfield