In article <otterw.721476167@retina>, feil@prl.philips.nl (Hans Feil) writes:
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|> Will it be possible to rotate text 90 degrees in showcase?
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|> Now I have some xy plots and I want to have text along the y-axis.
|> Rotating is not allowed according the on-line help ( and the
|> square rotating handles). I really need this option and probably
|> everybody who makes xy plots that have to be submitted to a
|> scientific journal.
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|> I hope that this feature will be in some next version of Showcase....
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|> Hans Feil
|> Philips Research Labs
|> Eindhoven
|> The Netherlands
|> feil@prl.philips.nl
|>
Presently there is no way to rotate a text object in showcase version 2.
One work around however, is to open a new showcase document, input a
line of text. After entering the text make sure it is selected. Go to the File-->Save As-->As EPS menu selection. Provide a file name and when prompted
whether to save entire document or selected item(s), choose only selected
items. This has taken your one text object and saved it as an EPS file. Now
open up you main showcase document (the one containing your plots). Do a
File-->Insert-->EPS menu selection and import in the EPS file you just
created. The imported EPS object can be rotated and in this case the line
