nanogui: Rotated fonts on microwindows?
Subject:
Re: [nanogui] Rotated fonts on microwindows?
From:
"Greg Haerr" ####@####.####
Date:
20 Aug 2004 18:14:11 +0100
Message-Id: <0aaf01c486d9$1b276b90$0300a8c0@RDP>
: I recon helvR08.pcf.gz is a rotated font file - cause of the "R".
:
: Are rotated fonts supposed to work?
Well, Microwindows will just output the bitmap of the
.pcf file in non-rotated format, as it doesn't know anything
about whether the font is rotated. I don't think X does
either... there's no Xlib API for rotation that I know of.
However, the font should still appear, with the character
bitmaps readable, thought.
Microwindows does support actual rotated fonts through
a seperate Gr API, and this works only when using truetype
.ttf fonts. NXLIB doesn't use this currently, since I don't
know the Xlib routine emulated in this case.
Regards,
Greg
