Re: angled text field

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Pim van Pelt wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I was wondering if there is any planned support for placing texts under
> an angle in stead of horizontal only. This can come in useful for
> example when one draws maps of a city (street names) and also for
> network diagrams (linkspeed for example).

There are plans to have generic rotation for all objects, but that is
currently just a plan.  The necessary low-level support (in particular font
rotation for both Gdk and Freetype) is there, but we don't have the
infrastructure in Dia to actually rotate.

-Lars

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