Re: DrawText / DrawText, word wrapping and long strings

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From: Remy Lebeau (TeamB)
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 05:37

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"Mike Collins" <its@TheBottomOfThePost.com> wrote in message
news:44b5af24@newsgroups.borland.com...

> Just out of interest, do you know any good references on this sort
> of thing - i want to create a more advanced print out i.e. watermarks
> and possibly angled or rotated text but i can seem to find much other
> that DrawText and TextOut...

Use CreateFontIndirect() to use rotated fonts.  Set the lfOrientation member
of the LOGFONT structure to the angle of rotation.  You can then use
SelectObject() to apply the font to any Canvas prior to writing text on it.
Make sure that you are using a TrueType font, though.


Gambit

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