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In article <1iocqrINNodm@overload.lbl.gov> spielman@ux5.lbl.gov (Steven Spielman) writes:
>Rotated text gets printed at 72 dpi.  It happens with Pasted PICT objects, as
>well as ones made with Word's own PICT editor. 

>Not a disaster, I know, but it looks sloppy, and it seems like it
>doesn't have to be this way.  Claris CAD can print rotated text at 300
>dpi.  Word can even print 300 dpi bitmaps o.k.

>Has anyone discovered an antidote for this?  

Unfortunately, there is no antidote for this.  The LaserWriter LS is a
hi-res QuickDraw device.  QuickDraw has no provisions for rotating the drawing
axes (ala PostScript).  So the only way to create rotated text for
QuickDraw devices is to convert the text to a bitmap and rotate the bitmap,
bit by bit.  Now, even if we could create multiple bitmaps for different
resolutions without bending the rules, the chances that we would do so for
rotation are slim.  The number of bits one has to look at in order to
rotate a bitmap is proportional to the square of the number of dots per
inch.


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