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Rotating text

Hi All.

I'm trying to print rotated text to go around a circle with both a printer and picture box control. Ideally i would be able to rotate the text any angle from 0-360degrees and if possible use any font. If that is impossible i might have to create some vector based characters and work with them.

Can anyone offer any help / suggestions?

Rgds from Downunder,
Kresho
Sydney, Aust.
[425 byte] By [kresho] at [2007-11-17 17:10:42]
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# 1 Re: Rotating text
You can use the Api CreateFont to specify a correct angle of the text.

I hope i help you.
ringos75 at 2007-11-10 0:22:37 >
# 2 Re: Rotating text
Thanks for that Ringo.

I got it to work with a picture box but unfortunately no success with the printer control - keeps printing horizontal text and without proper font selection. I think it might have something to do with the fonts the printer can handle? I tried TTFonts but they don't help.

Looks like i might need to resort to vectors and trigonometry - ughh!

Kresho.
kresho at 2007-11-10 0:23:40 >
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