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Re: rotated postscript fonts [message #28017 is a reply to message #28013]

Wed, 14 November 2001 08:33

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Steve Smith<steven_smith> (nobody@nowhere.com) writes:

> I would like to use postscript fonts for the labels in a shade_surf plot,
> because the vector drawn fonts are hard to read and not nice-looking. But
> IDL (5.2) vertically stacks one letter on top of the other for the Z-axis
> when I set the FONT=0 (choosing PS fonts). I'd like to have the Z-axis
> label rotated 90 degrees (normal typeset, but rotated), which is what happens
> when using the vector drawn fonts. I don't see any way to do this, but there
> _must_ be a way, can anyone tell me how?

Use True-type fonts, which are PostScript vector fonts
that are rotatable in 3D space.

!P.Font = 1

Or,

Shade_Surf, data, Font=1

Cheers,

David

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		Re: rotated postscript fonts By: noymer on Wed, 14 November 2001 17:41
		Re: rotated postscript fonts By: David Fanning on Wed, 14 November 2001 15:47
		Re: rotated postscript fonts By: nobody@nowhere.com (S on Wed, 14 November 2001 15:28
		Re: rotated postscript fonts By: Logan Lindquist on Wed, 14 November 2001 11:02
		Re: rotated postscript fonts By: David Fanning on Wed, 14 November 2001 08:33

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