PostScript - Re: How to rotate a text string ?

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Re: How to rotate a text string ?

Ross Presser

2006-03-08, 9:57 pm

Ross Presser wrote:
> Interesting!
>
> Not quite ready for prime time, but close. It rotates the letters
> clockwise, when CCW is probably what was wanted; but changing the -90
> to 90 doesn't do it right, because then the horizontal advance is
> backwards.

Changing -90 to 90, and changing [0 0 0 1000] to [0 0 0 -1000] gives
the desired effect! Hooray!

Using 0 instead of 90 is interesting, too: it gives the often-requested
"print a string vertically" effect.

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