Re: Vertical strings in a PixMap

[Mark Leisher <mleisher crl nmsu edu>]

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

X itself doesn't, but the cool little "xvertext" package does.  It can be
found in one of the contrib directories on the X.Org sites (http://www.x.org
or ftp://ftp.x.org).

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

I believe this is what xvertext does.
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