[gl2ps] rotated text in ps

Christophe Geuzaine geuzaine at acm.caltech.edu
Fri Aug 20 00:10:50 CEST 2004


Shai Ayal wrote:

> Hi
> 
> At last, after so many help requests, I have a small contribution -- 
> rotated text in ps output. Actually, I just figured out the ps code, not 
> the changes needed in gl2ps to implement it. just replace the /S macro with
> 
> /SR { gsave FC translate 0 0 moveto rotate show grestore } BD
> 
> which now shows rotated text:
> 
> (rotated) -45 100 25 10 /Helvetica SR
> 
> All the other "/S??" macros need to be altered accordingly. Tell if you 
> like the idea.
> 

Yep, I'll try to incorporate this in a future release.

Thanks!

C.


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