Re: The future of GNOME.

[Pruet Boonma <pruet intanon nectec or th>]

Matrix XLFD ? It's X11 extension and I think that it can transform/rotate
normal X font. 

pruet

On 10 Mar 1999, Martin Soto wrote:

> Havoc Pennington <rhp@zirx.pair.com> writes:
> > > 	Maybe I am very confounded, but don't freetype engine (v1.2)
> > > support font rotation?
> > 
> > Only for TrueType fonts. There's also t1lib for Type 1 fonts. And there's
> > basically no good way to rotate X fonts (without an extension). The app
> > developer should be shileded from this mess.
> 
> I have never heard of an X11 extension for doing text rotations and
> the like (apart from DisplayPostScript, which, I suppose, can rotate
> and scale texts as PostScript does).  Does anybody knows of such a
> thing being developed somewhere?
> 
> M. S.
> ------------
> Martin A. Soto J.                          Professor
> Department of Systems Engineering and Computing
> The University of Los Andes    -    Bogota. Colombia      
> e-mail: masoto@uniandes.edu.co
> 
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