Re: Pango rotation

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org>]

On 12/11/2009 07:58 AM, Edder wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am currently using cairomm (c++ bindings to cairo) to render some
> graphs, but wanted to start including pangomm support for more
> complicated text. One of the things I wanted to do was rotate text,
> but I can't seem to get it to work. I first tried to use gravity to do
> it and later also tried it with
> layout->get_context()->set_matrix(...). I also tried setting it after
> update_from_cairo_context, because I thought that might unset the
> rotation, but that didn't seem to help either.
>
> Furthermore I am interested in centering the text (instead of left
> aligned). I tried to do this with set_alignment, but this also didn't
> seem to work. I solved that by using get_pixel_size, but would still
> be interested if this can be done in a better way.
>
> I hope someone can help me. For sample code see below.

cr->rotate().

behdad