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Re: Re: AxesLabels on the MacOS, mkdk

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  • Subject: [mg8996] Re: [mg8905] Re: [mg8860] AxesLabels on the MacOS, mkdk
  • From: jpk at max.mpae.gwdg.de
  • Date: Tue, 7 Oct 1997 03:35:43 -0400
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Hi,

the answer is quit easy. Rotation of text needs definetly PostScript. 
NextStep has not X Window, not MS-Windows API it has DisplayPostScript
as build-in as graphical interface. So NextStep can easyly perform
the rotation of texts. All other systems have *not* the possibility
of displaying text other than in horizontal direction. 

For the display (in the frontend) Mathematica over comes this limitation
of the most graphical user interfaces by formating the rotated

"speed (s/m)" 

string as

(
m
/
s
)

d
e
e
p
s

simply because it has no fonts with rotated letters.
The printing on a PostScript device will
show the correct rotated string.

How ever this need a PostScript device not a GUI. Print
Your graphics and all will be right.

Hope that helps
  Jens



> "decker, mark" <ORmad at orntsrv103.micro.lucent.com>
> [mg8860] AxesLabels on the MacOS, mkdk
> 
> > Vertical Labels (typically on the y-axis) do not rotate the
> > characters 90 degrees, but just print the characters upwards, as
> > shown below, whichshould read vertically as "speed (m/s)".
> 
> > )
> > s
> > /
> > m
> > (
> 
> > d
> > e
> > e
> > p
> > s
> 
> This problem does not show up with Mma3.0 on NeXTStep.
> 
> Allan Hayes
> hay at haystack.demon.co.uk
> http://www.haystack.demon.co.uk/training.html
> voice:+44 (0)116 2714198
> fax: +44 (0)116 2718642
> Leicester,  UK
> 
> 






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