On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, James Henstridge wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Oct 1999, Cyrille Chepelov (home) wrote:
> > > Drawing rotated text is never going to be efficient with the current X
> > > APIs. There is talk of extended APIs in XFree86 4.0 which handle anti
> > > aliased text, and they may also support this. I think it would be better
> > > to wait for this. Currently, to rotate text, you need to create a
> > > GdkPixmap big enough to hold the string, draw the text to the pixmap,
> > > create a GdkImage of the pixmap so you can access the pixel values, rotate
> > > the bitmap and finally draw the rotated pixel data to the screen (maybe
> > > using gdkrgb). This is not very efficient.
> >
> > Who really cares ? I want nice EPS graphics ; if people find that feature
> > too slow for their machines, they simply don't need to use it.
>
> Well if you can convince Alex of this, I guess it will go in. But it is
> still very difficult to get arbitrarily rotated text with the current X
> api's (the work around code would be very ugly), so I don't know how
> likely it is that it will go in.
It will be far to slow on a normal machine and unusable on a remote
machine. I will not code this. If someone else wants i might look at it,
but I'm not sure it will go in.
/ Alex
