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> Steven Greco writes:
>
> Posted: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 19:14:2
> Org.  : University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
> I need to draw text on its side and was wondering if it is possible to
> do this with Borland C++ and owl.  Right now I am using DrawText to draw
> my text, but it just produces normal text, not text on its side.  Is this
> possible?  Is there any way to rotate a bitmap possibly?
> Thanks in advance.
> --
> ^ Steven Greco ^           "I've got a real indication of a laugh coming
> on..."
> greco@cs.uiuc.edu                  -Thought Gang
> s-greco@uiuc.edu

You have to create the font with the rotation attribute -- set nOrientation
and nEscapement in CreateFont or CreateFontIndirect.  nOrientation is the
orientation of the letters and nEscapement is the angle the text is
written out as.  Both these are ints in tenths of a degree.  There's an
example program wth bcc, truetype.c, found under examples/win31/truetype
if you want to see how it's done.  
As an aside -- has anyone tried printing rotated fonts?  I found that the
hpIII & hpIIp drivers produce different (& both incorrect) outputs! 

Hope this helps...
Bob
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 Bob Burrow                           Department of Chemistry          
 rburrow@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca     University of Toronto      
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 Bob Burrow                           Department of Chemistry          
 rburrow@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca     University of Toronto