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In article <richard.722213200@dutepp13>, Richard.Kooijman@dnpap.et.tudelft.nl (Richard Kooijman) writes:


|> I know that xfig can't rotate text, but I have read somewhere that the
|> latest version (we have 2.1.6) should display at least a rotated box
|> so that you can see where the text will end up on paper.
|> 
|> If I try this, I get the same old result: no rotated text, no box.
|> Did I misread whatever I read or do you have to do something to enable
|> this new feature?

From the CHANGES file:

o new resource "textoutline" (class "TextOutline") and command-line argument
        "-textoutline" which will outline text in red to show the bounding box
        that the text will occupy when printed (useful for rotated text)

and from The Fine Man page:

     -te[xtoutline]
          Specifies that xfig will draw a red (on color machines)
          outline  of  the "actual" bounding box of text objects.
          This is mostly useful for determining what rotated text
          will  look  like since xfig doesn't show the text rota-
          tion on the canvas.

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