Re: linux font rotation in graphics & (strange) black graphics borders
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- Subject: [mg71192] Re: linux font rotation in graphics & (strange) black graphics borders
- From: "ragfield" <ragfield at gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 06:37:50 -0500 (EST)
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Bill Rowe wrote: > On 11/8/06 at 6:04 AM, chris at chiasson.name (Chris Chiasson) wrote: > > >Is Mathematica on Linux able to rotate fonts in graphics? I've heard > >that this doesn't work on Macs, but I don't know about Linux. > >Anyway, I am unable to make this work after trying it under xvnc and > >plain X. > > There was a problem with the display of rotated text on Macs > using earlier versions of Mathematica. But, this is no longer > the case with the current version (5.2). I cannot specifically > recall if this problem had been corrected by version 5.1 or not. > And since I've not used Linux, I don't whether the problem > exists there. Rotated text support was added for Mac in 5.2. I don't believe it is available for Linux in 5.2. -Rob