Re: Drawing ellipses with arbitrary orientation???

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From: Nicholas Young
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 1996 00:00

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In article <4lnh15$4mo@newshost.uni-koblenz.de>, lothi@uni-koblenz.de wrote:

> we are looking for a X-window routine (or any compatible graphics
> function) to draw an ellipse with _arbitrary_ orientation.
> 
> (XDrawArc only seems to support ellipses with axisses parallel to
>  the horizontal and vertical coordinate-axisses ...)

That is all it does support.  You'll either have to do it yourself client
side and use an image, or find a graphics display package that does it for
you.  Or if you have the DPS extension that might work.

Nicholas.
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From: youngn@logica.com (Nicholas Young)
Subject: Re: Drawing ellipses with arbitrary orientation???
Date: 1996/04/26
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