On Sun, 12 Aug 2001 05:59:19 Randall Parker wrote: > I have a class that draws up rotated text as part of a report > preparation. If I call into it with a > JPanel's visible Graphics2D object the text that is rotated 90 degrees > and 270 degrees is > displayed on the screen with the rotations that I expect. > > With the SVGGraphics2D object and in the SVG viewer the text also appears > rotated in the > expected way. > > However, I've used PDFDocumentGraphics2D in the same way and when the > result is > displayed in Acrobat the rotated text shows up rotated 270 when it should > be rotated 90 > and vice versa. > > So I suspect there is a problem with the PDFDocumentGraphics2D object. > > This problem only shows up when the first argument to the > PDFDocumentGraphics2D > constructor (textAsShapes) is false. > > Also, the reason I set textAsShapes to false is that when I set > textAsShapes to true then > all fonts show as very bold even when they are specified to be plain. When text is drawn as shapes it is not bold, the viewer is not very good at drawing the fine curves (complain to adobe), but if you print it out you will see that the text is correct. As for rotating, I've never even tried it. Do you have a simple example. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
