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- From: dhinds@leland.Stanford.EDU (David Hinds)
- Subject: Re: Showcase: rotate text impossible ??? help.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.173819.1049@leland.Stanford.EDU>
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- Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
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- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 92 17:38:19 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov11.155119.17659@odin.corp.sgi.com> miguel@boytoy.csd.sgi.com (Michael/Miguel Sanchez) writes:
- >
- >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
- >of text which it contains is rotated.
-
- That's what I do (almost), but I don't see the need to switch documents.
- Just enter the text in the current doc, save as EPS, then delete it, and
- import the EPS file.
-
- - David Hinds
- dhinds@allegro.stanford.edu
-