Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84; site mhuxl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!mhuxl!dma From: dma@mhuxl.UUCP (Diana M. Abelbeck AT&T Technologies, Inc.) Newsgroups: net.micro.mac Subject: Rotating "fonts" on the LaserWriter Message-ID: <294@mhuxl.UUCP> Date: Wed, 6-Nov-85 21:14:51 EST Article-I.D.: mhuxl.294 Posted: Wed Nov 6 21:14:51 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 8-Nov-85 06:08:18 EST Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill Lines: 26 [] Does anyone know how to "draw" rotated text to the LaserWriter? I don't mean a rotated bitmap, I do that now, I mean a rotated "font". (Landscape and Portrait Mode is not my question here.) MacDraw can do it, and a Quickdraw Picture copied to the clipboard from MacDraw yields the proper result on the LaserWriter with a simple DrawPicture() call. Peeking at the QD Picture results in a type "int" defining the angle of the character rotation in degrees clockwise from 12 o'clock Before the DrawString() is performed and a standard BitMap rotation follows the DrawString() command. Since QD does not handle rotation, my question is how do you create a QD picture without a QD rotate call? This topic only affects the LaserWriter since it is capable of drawing "fonts" (ala high quality) at any angle, all the other output devices draw a bitmap and I already rotate the font on a bitmap. Thanks... Lonnie Ablebeck ihnp4!mhuxl!dma