[comp.windows.x] Displaying Vertical Text/Strings

schmitz@boulder.Colorado.EDU (SCHMITZ DAVID GLENN) (12/15/90)

   I am in the process of moving a GKS based graphics toolbox over to X
using only Xlib.  There haven't been many problems until trying to make
similar text routines.  I cannot find a way (relativly simple) to display
text vertically.  Does anyone have any ideas/ tricks that may enable me
to do this.  Is there anyway to rotate text using Xlib ?  How about
a rotated font ? 

  Thanks,

    Dave

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etaylor@wilkins.iaims.bcm.tmc.edu (Eric Taylor) (12/18/90)

This is another one of the "Most Frequently Asked Questions".

The answer is "sort of".

One method is to draw each character on a separate line.

Another method is to draw into a bitmap and then rotate
the bitmap using XImages.
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