Hi,
Paul Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >Is it possible to have gtk_label_new("TEXT")
> >be vertical or rotated???
>
> no. X (which GDK relies on in the version of GTK+ that you are almost
> certainly using) provides no facilities for text rotation.
this is not the full truth since X11R6 does support rotated glyphs, see
http://www.faqs.org/faqs/x-faq/part7/section-45.html
> i don't know if Pango, which GTK+ 1.3/2.0 uses for text can do a
> better job on this. i have a feeling it can, but i am not sure.
while the layers below Pango probably have this feature (at least
FreeType2 allows to specify a transformation matrix), Pango itself
has no API for rotations or other transformations.
Salut, Sven
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