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Conference bulova::decw_jan-89_to_nov-90

Title:	DECWINDOWS 26-JAN-89 to 29-NOV-90
Notice:	See 1639.0 for VMS V5.3 kit; 2043.0 for 5.4 IFT kit
Moderator:	STAR::VATNE

Created:	Mon Oct 30 1989
Last Modified:	Mon Dec 31 1990
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	3726
Total number of notes:	19516

899.0. "Non-Horizontal Text" by TEACH::ART (Think the UNTHINKABLE) Wed Jun 07 1989 14:10

	Am I missing something obvious, or is there no built in way
	to write a a text string that is rotated away from the horizontal 
	in DECW ?  Other windowing systems provide some way to specify an 
	angular offset for text.

	It seems to me that, if I want a string of characters
	going up the side of a graph (for instance), I actually have
	to use a font that's already rotated.  Is that the case ?
	If not, what am I missing ?

	Thanks,
	 Art Baker
	 DC Training Center

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
899.1	A limitation of the X drawing model	SDSVAX::SWEENEY	Gotham City's Software Consultant	`Wed Jun 07 1989 14:18`	6
	This is a limitation of the X drawing model. Potentially a font could be composed of rotated text, but that would need to be specially done. The general solution to this will be Display Postscript, quo vide the note I wrote earlier today.
899.2	not with vanilla X	NEURON::NICHOLSON	A belly as big as an oil spill	`Wed Jun 07 1989 14:21`	9
	X gives you basic functionality (all the flash will come from extensions) so you can't rotate text (or rectancles or elipses) with it. I've assumed that the display post-script extension will do rotating text, but I'm not sure. Mark
899.3	How DECterm (slowly) rotates ReGIS text	HANNAH::MESSENGER	Bob Messenger	`Wed Jun 07 1989 16:48`	11
	DECterm draws rotated text by writing each character to a pixmap, calling XGetImage to read the bitmap pattern, rotating the pattern in memory, and then drawing the rotated character with XPutImage. This is on monochrome systems; on color systems it's even worse, because it has to draw the (single plane) pattern to a pixmap and then use that pixmap as a stipple pattern to draw in the main window. A server extension would speed this up quite a bit... -- Bob
899.4		VWSENG::KLEINSORGE	Toys 'R' Us	`Thu Jun 08 1989 08:48`	5
	Gee, I seem to remember this conversation 2� years ago...
899.5	DPS will, uh, would do it all right	DECWIN::FISHER	Burns Fisher 381-1466, ZKO3-4/W23	`Thu Jun 08 1989 11:49`	4
	If we had Display Postscript, that would definitely rotate text :-) Burns