Re: Bug in Graphics Text under Linux
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg51631] Re: Bug in Graphics Text under Linux
- From: "Jens-Peer Kuska" <kuska at informatik.uni-leipzig.de>
- Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2004 23:42:25 -0400 (EDT)
- Organization: Uni Leipzig
- References: <clnesl$od1$1@smc.vnet.net>
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
Hi, your X11 can not rotate trxt by an arbitary degree, because X11 does a rastered bitmap reperesetation of the letters in the font and it can not rotate the bitmap. You can export the PostScript version of the graphics, let GhostScript render a bitmap version and import this bitmap. and you can (and this seems to be the best solution) join the X11 developer group and enhance X11 to render outline fonts. Regards Jens "Kevin" <kmccann at umbc.edu> schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:clnesl$od1$1 at smc.vnet.net... > This problem has been presented before, but I have not used Mathematica > under > Linux in a while. Under 5.0 (and earlier versions) I find that graphic > text that runs other than horizontal is not properly rendered. For > example, if I plot something like this > > Text[StyleForm["Scattered Wave", FontSize -> 12], {5.5, 3.2}, {0, 0}, > {1, 0.55}] > > I get "Scattered Wave" running off at about 30deg, but each letter is > horizontal. This problem produces an even more absurd result for y-axis > labels for which the label runs vertically but the letters are horizontal. > > The last time I tuned in on this, Wolfram support said it was a problem > with X11. Perhaps, but it is still a BUG in the Linux product that makes > Mathematica on Linux unusable in the classroom. > > Does anyone know of a workaround? > > Thanks, > > Kevin >