Have a look at paps at: http://imagic.weizmann.ac.il/~dov/freesw/paps/
It shows you how to extract the freetype2 glyphs from a pango layout. Rendering the glyphs at an angle should be pretty straightforward through the freetype2 API. Regards, Dov On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 08:04:30PM +0100, Sven Neumann wrote: > Hi, > > "Ian King [ES]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > What makes you think this is so easy? For 90, 180 and 270 degrees it's > > fairly simple but what about 45? I have played about with the gimp and they > > only support limited (90, 180, 270) rotation. Am I missing something here, > > gdk allows me to render text, can I render that text (or even anything) > > rotated or is that beyond the scope of the `drawing' kit. > > afaik, it is beyond its scope at the moment. Perhaps it will be added > with a later release of Pango. > > There are however ways to to hack around this limitation. You could > for example render the text to an offscreen drawable and rotate it > then. That's OK for multiples of 90 degrees but totally ruins > antialiasing and hinting for other angles. Probably better to do the > rendering yourself using with freetype2. The glyph layout can be > calculated by transforming the metrics calculated by PangoFT2 for the > unrotated text. > > > Salut, Sven > > > _______________________________________________ > gtk-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list -- ___ ___ / o \ o \ Dov Grobgeld ( o o ) o | The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel \ o /o o / "Where the tree of wisdom carries oranges" | | | | _| |_ _| |_ _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list