Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!mailrus!uwmcsd1!ig!agate!ucbvax!software.ORG!marshall From: marshall@software.ORG (Eric Marshall) Newsgroups: comp.windows.news Subject: show bug using rotated text Message-ID: <8808052338.AA02598@brillig.umd.edu> Date: 11 Aug 88 07:24:15 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 32 The following program demonstrates that the show operator doesn't properly space rotated text when given a character string with more than a single character: /Times-Bold findfont 30 scalefont setfont 200 200 moveto 90 rotate (Hello) show Both the 'e' and 'o' characters overwrite the 'H'. If the show command is given only a single character to display: (H) show (e) show (l) show (l) show (o) show it works fine. Eric Marshall Software Productivity Consortium 1880 North Campus Commons Drive Reston, VA 22091 (703) 391-1838 CSNET: marshall@software.org ARPANET: marshall%software.org@relay.cs.net OR @relay.cs.net:marshall@software.org