Hi,
On 14 Feb 2000, Lars Clausen wrote:
> [Now why did this come out reversed?]
> Export file formats is just a question of people writing them, nothing
> magic there. Rotation has been asked about before -- basically, X does not
> rotate text (or, I think, rectangles and ellipses). One solution would be
> to write into a buffer, then rotate the buffer, but the results are rarely
> pretty. I'm not quite sure what you mean by 'shade areas'? Compound
> objects are created from the objects that are selected, which can be done
> manually or by selecting an area (would like to have Select All, Select
> Inverse, Select by Type and such, though).
Regarding text rotation, you might want to take a peek at
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/x-faq/part7/section-45.html
In there is a reference to xvertext, which is what xfig uses, that can
render text rotated at arbitrary angles on X. AFAIK it uses a buffer to
render the string, but the results aren't all too bad (better than 'nuthin
in any case).
Rotated text is something I really would like to see in Dia, if I had more
time I'll look into it myself, but I already have too much to do at the
moment.
> -Lars
>
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