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- From: miguel@boytoy.csd.sgi.com (Michael/Miguel Sanchez)
- Subject: Re: Showcase: rotate text impossible ??? help.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov11.212535.382@odin.corp.sgi.com>
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- References: <otterw.721476167@retina> <1992Nov11.155119.17659@odin.corp.sgi.com> <1992Nov11.173819.1049@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 21:25:35 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov11.173819.1049@leland.Stanford.EDU>, dhinds@leland.Stanford.EDU (David Hinds) writes:
- |> 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
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- You can do it that way, its just I have found most people don't have the
- room on current the document to be "doing something on the side".
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- Miguel (Michael) J. Sanchez
- miguel@csd.sgi.com
- Member Technical Staff, Silicon Graphics, Inc.
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