Re: Vertical strings in a PixMap

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

Colin Thomas <colin designresources co uk> writes:
> 
> I would like to write a string to a pixmap, but have the string be rotated.
> i.e. vertical text.
> 
> I have looked at the gdk_draw_string function, and font objects, and have
> not managed to locate a switch to control text rotation.
> 
> Any hints on where I should be looking ??
> 
> I look forward to your combined wisdom.
> 

You are doomed, GTK just uses the underlying X string-drawing
mechanism, and X does not support this.

The only thing you can do is use some sort of client-side font
rendering, then push a big bitmap of your string onto the X
server. People sometimes use FreeType for that.

Havoc