Re: Drawing text at an arbitrary angle

[Mark Mielke <mark mark mielke cc>]

On Tue, Sep 17, 2002 at 05:56:55PM -0500, Art Haas wrote:
> A quick question: is it possible to draw text at an arbitrary
> angle using pango/gtk2? My efforts to find an answer through
> searching the web proved unsuccessful. A look at the GTK/Pango
> code suggest that it is not possible - all text is drawn either
> horizontally or vertically. What I'm looking to do is draw
> text along an arbitrarily angled line (i.e. 30 degrees).
> If it is possible, a reference to some sample code would be
> greatly appreciated.

Not really a proper answer, but you could always draw the text offscreen
horizontally, then take that bitmap and draw it at an angle where you want
the text to be. If Gtk doesn't offer this feature, a little trigonometry is
all you need to do it manually...

mark

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