I've done a little experimenting and have come with a somewhat kludgy
way to accommodate real non-horizontal text. It simply involves making
a column array of narrow fields that are set to center alignment. A
simple algorithm for placing the chars of a word into the appropriate
column and line will result in real text on an angle with a certain
degree of freedom to control that angle with precision. Works fine for
me but certainly involves a lot of fields!
HTH,
Roger
On Jun 13, 2009, at 10:00 AM, [email protected]
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Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:22:36 -0700
From: Richard Gaskin <[email protected]>
Subject: strategies for non-horizontal text orientation
To: How to use Revolution <[email protected]>
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I have a project which will need to present a grid layout in which the
columns are narrow but will be identified with text labels.
Ideally these would be at a 45-degree angle, so each could be clearly
associated with the column they relate to but still be reasonably
readable. But at worst I'd accept a fully-vertical orientation.
The speed to generate vertically-oriented text isn't a problem,
since I
could render it offscreen in a list field and make and image of that
field and set its angle to 90. But I'd prefer 45 degrees, and that
means doing each label in its own operation, not the speediest thing
in
the world since I may have up to a hundred or even two hundred
labels to
produce.
But that's not the hard part. The hardest part is printing. Argh.
Printing an image of text will be jaggies-hell compared to the smooth
appearance of native vector-rendered text.
I suppose I could render the text at 4 times actual size and then
resize
it down for display and printing on the card, but I'm concerned about
that will alter the appearance, perhaps smoothing the image more than
would be desirable (I haven't yet experimented with this to have any
subjective feeling for how it looks).
Any of you doing angled or vertically-oriented text? Any tips you can
share?
Also, do any of you know of a request in the RQCC for native support
of
non-horizontally oriented text? I just did a search for "text
orientation" and came up with many hits but none for that.
--
Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Media Corporation
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