Greg Look for the thread "*rotated text" *dated 6 December 2004 in the Getting Started archives. I found the solution desribed by Joe Strout there. It involves drawing into a picture first and then drawing that into the graphics object using DrawInto I think.
Regards Paul Rehill mathsteacher.com.au RB 5.5.5 Mac Pro, Mac OS 10.3.6 RB 5.5.5 Win Standard, Win XP SP2 Plugins used: MBS RealBasic resources: RB Developer, Matt Neuburg's RB book On 1/31/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to print some text normally but have heading which is perpiducular > to the rest of the text (so it can be filed and viewed in the file folder > easier). I am using normal drawstrings for the text, and to get the > perpindicular text, I am usnig the stringshape and rotating it. On my Mac, I > am able to print preview it and it loosk fine. However, when I actually > print it out (on a windows machine) the entire graphic which is rotated is > blacked out. Its the whole rectangle which encloses the text, no matter what > the text is. > > Is there some trick to this? Why would it work fine on the mac (at least > in preview) and not work when printing to a Laser (Hewlett Packard Laserjet > 5n). > > thanks > > Greg > _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe or switch delivery mode: <http://www.realsoftware.com/support/listmanager/> Search the archives of this list here: <http://support.realsoftware.com/listarchives/lists.html>
