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Re: true type font orientation [message #17913]

Tue, 16 November 1999 00:00

davidf
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Registered: September 1996

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Tony Lanzirotti (al@NOSPAM.com) writes:

> OK, I went a little crazy and decided to add windows true type hardware
> fonts to my plot but, wouldn't you figure, now my Y axis title is
> printed vertically on the screen rather than horizontally and rotated
> 90�. Any suggestions on how to keep the hardware font but change the
> y-axis titling?

I think "true-type hardware fonts" is an oxymoron. :-)

I think you *think* you are using true-type fonts
and you are not. Try this. These are true-type
fonts:

IDL> Plot, Findgen(11), YTitle='Help Me Please!!', Charsize=2.5, Font=1

Looks rotated to me. :-)

Cheers,

David
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