Re: write text vertically

[Lars Clausen <lars raeder dk>]

On Sat, 2007-02-24 at 06:50 -0500, Michael Ross wrote:
> Write it horizontally, make a screen dump, rotate the image in some
> other software, and put it back in as a picture is what I have done.
> (I have a CAD program that lets me write text along a curved spline or
> around a circle which can be useful.)  With the picture insertion
> method you are stuck with an opaque background around the text. You
> can make the inserted picture go to the back and place other shapes
> and vector entities over it.  You can't do everything this way, but it
> is useful every now end then 
>
> I have been messing around with Inkscape (open source photo editor,
> and graphics) and it is better at this sort of thing.  It does
> transparent overlays very nicely.  I think I remember you can rotate
> text in Inkscape.  Unfortunately, I don't have it on this PC to check
> it out.   

Inkscape allows many manipulations of text, including text along
arbitrary paths.  Dia does not, yet, but I'm planning to put a Google
Summer of Code project up for it.

> If Inkscape had easily customizable stencils... Well, if Dia had
> easily customizable stencils... Really, I am here for the stencils.
> MR



-Lars