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From: dma@mhuxl.UUCP (Diana M. Abelbeck AT&T Technologies, Inc.)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Rotating "fonts" on the LaserWriter
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Date: Wed, 6-Nov-85 21:14:51 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov  6 21:14:51 1985
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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
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