RE: gnomecanvas rotate text and print?

["David L" <idht4n hotmail com>]

> I've started a simple little gtk / gnomecanvas floor plan
> drawing application.  I need to figure out how to
> rotate gnome canvas text at an arbitrary angle (to put
> dimensions on the floor plan).  Also, I want to be able
> to print an anti-aliased gnomecanvas with high
> resolution to give to an architect.  (I've been just taking
> screenshots of the canvas which is cumbersome and
> doesn't look very good).  How can I do these things?

Thanks to everyone who replied to me... I'll quickly
summarize what I've learned.  Don't use gnomecanvas
for new applications.  If your application doesn't
really need the features of a canvas, just use cairo.
It has Linux and Windows support (I posted a howto
to the gtk list on how to cross compile a simple
gtk/cairo app from Linux to Windows) and seems
to be pretty feature complete (although the
documentation seems a bit scattered and
incomplete).  If you really need a canvas, somebody
pointed me to some canvases at
http://www.cairographics.org/examples.  Some of
them are quite impressive.  I've read that gtk
is planning on incorporating a canvas into
gtk.  If you need a canvas and can wait, I'd
recommend waiting to see what they pick.

           David

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