Re: HC convert: help with text as graphic or rotated text

2009-12-27 Thread James Hurley
Message: 2 Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2009 11:41:18 -0800 From: Scott Rossi Subject: Re: HC convert: help with text as graphic or rotated text To: How to use Revolution Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Recently, James Hurley wrote: go url "http://www.t

Re: HC convert: help with text as graphic or rotated text

2009-12-26 Thread Scott Rossi
Recently, James Hurley wrote: >> go url "http://www.tactilemedia.com/site_files/downloads/textspinner.rev"; > I tried to add one more element: Disembodied text, i.e. a text field > field with zero border width and opaque set to false. > > Unfortunately it crashes RunRev 4.0, build 950 on my Mac

Re: HC convert: help with text as graphic or rotated text

2009-12-26 Thread James Hurley
Message: 1 Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 11:18:11 -0800 From: Scott Rossi Subject: Re: HC convert: help with text as graphic or rotated text To: How to use Revolution Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" You can't physically rotate text, but you can cre

Re: HC convert: help with text as graphic or rotated text

2009-12-25 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 25/12/2009 22:15, J. Landman Gay wrote: Richmond Mathewson wrote: Well, as RunRev seem quite good at keeping some of the information you mention below close to their collective chest I can only go on what I see. Well, I didn't think that a field rewrite was a secret, but now I hope I hav

Re: HC convert: help with text as graphic or rotated text

2009-12-25 Thread Jim Ault
I think you were merely stating the obvious. I have no connection to RR and I use Rev every day to satisfy many client needs as well as my own. My guess is that there will be more than one field object, since many apps would not require an 'all singing all dancing' object in every project

Re: HC convert: help with text as graphic or rotated text

2009-12-25 Thread J. Landman Gay
Richmond Mathewson wrote: Well, as RunRev seem quite good at keeping some of the information you mention below close to their collective chest I can only go on what I see. Well, I didn't think that a field rewrite was a secret, but now I hope I haven't overstepped my NDA. Mostly I just wante

Re: HC convert: help with text as graphic or rotated text

2009-12-25 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 25/12/2009 21:02, J. Landman Gay wrote: Richmond Mathewson wrote: RunRev will bother about better text management/manipulation stuff when, either, enough financial pressure is brought to bear, or one of their big-time customers (???) demands it. Or when they can work out how to provide

Re: HC convert: help with text as graphic or rotated text

2009-12-25 Thread J. Landman Gay
Richmond Mathewson wrote: RunRev will bother about better text management/manipulation stuff when, either, enough financial pressure is brought to bear, or one of their big-time customers (???) demands it. Or when they can work out how to provide seamless text capabilities across multiple

Re: HC convert: help with text as graphic or rotated text

2009-12-25 Thread Emmett Gray
Thanks, Mark, your "attempt" works. Here's my functioning handler: on doSpine -- called on closing the field "Spine Text" and again when printing, to be safe set tool to pointer --to delete existing spine graphic click at 49,166 delete click at 455,166 delete set tool to brow

Re: HC convert: help with text as graphic or rotated text

2009-12-25 Thread Richmond Mathewson
On 25/12/2009 10:39, Jacques Hausser wrote: Le 24 déc. 2009 à 20:35, Mark Swindell a écrit : Does anyone know whether the Rev development team looking seriously at improving text management/manipulation in future releases? Mark Recurrent question, since the beginning ! Typical case

Re: HC convert: help with text as graphic or rotated text

2009-12-25 Thread Jacques Hausser
Le 24 déc. 2009 à 20:35, Mark Swindell a écrit : > Does anyone know whether the Rev development team looking seriously at > improving text management/manipulation in future releases? > > Mark Recurrent question, since the beginning ! Typical case of selective deafness... A firm promise from E

Re: HC convert: help with text as graphic or rotated text

2009-12-24 Thread Mark Swindell
Does anyone know whether the Rev development team looking seriously at improving text management/manipulation in future releases? Mark On Dec 24, 2009, at 11:18 AM, Scott Rossi wrote: > You can't physically rotate text, but you can create an image of text and > rotate that. Here's one example

Re: HC convert: help with text as graphic or rotated text

2009-12-24 Thread Scott Rossi
You can't physically rotate text, but you can create an image of text and rotate that. Here's one example of doing this. Execute the following in your Rev message box: go url "http://www.tactilemedia.com/site_files/downloads/textspinner.rev"; If you want to print out the results, you could try c

Re: HC convert: help with text as graphic or rotated text

2009-12-24 Thread stephen barncard
I've made many of these too, as no label program does what I want. I started the HC version almost 20 years ago, and carried it over to Rev about 5 years ago, continually adding functionality.I had to create an input parser for each kind of mastering rundown list; there is no standard. One can

Re: HC convert: help with text as graphic or rotated text

2009-12-24 Thread Mark Wieder
Emmett- Hi and welcome to the list. Thursday, December 24, 2009, 9:13:04 AM, you wrote: > If there is a way to rotate text in Rev I would have an easy > solution. I didn't find it, nor can I find a text as graphic tool in > Rev to do it the HC way... TIA for help. Here's my attempt at it - this