Re: Vertical strings in a PixMap

[Neil Bird <neil fnxweb com>]

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

  Am I right in remembering that GTK has a pixmap rotation jobby? If so,
you could write a /fairly/ simple wrapper to write the text to a temporary
1-bit pixmap (there are calls to get the expected size), rotate it, then
use it as a mask (in the GC) on the dest. pixmap to scribble a big
rectangle over.

  Bit long-winded, but it'll work, and it *is* sub-routinable.

  Maybe.


  If so, you could post here the generic any-angle routine :-)

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