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- From: k044477@hobbes.kzoo.edu (Jamie R. McCarthy)
- Subject: Re: Vertical Text drawing?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.202411.3685@hobbes.kzoo.edu>
- Keywords: text, vertical
- Organization: Kalamazoo College
- References: <1992Jul22.183254.12561@news2.cis.umn.edu>
- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 20:24:11 GMT
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- steve@mind.psych.umn.edu writes:
- >Does anyone know an easy way to draw text vertically? I want all of
- >the letters rotated as well as the whole word -- like the label on a graph.
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- If this isn't on the FAQ, it should be.
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- You can't do it directly. Draw them into an offscreen bit/pixmap,
- rotate it, and CopyBits it to the screen. QuickDraw GX, due out next
- year, will offer support for drawing rotated text.
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