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Bug 99468 - Support rotated text
Support rotated text
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: pango
Classification: Platform
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal enhancement
: future
Assigned To: pango-maint
pango-maint
Depends on:
Blocks: 99523
 
 
Reported: 2002-11-25 02:16 UTC by Olivier Crête
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Description Olivier Crête 2002-11-25 02:16:52 UTC 
Pango should support rotate text. I think Xft2 supports it? At least it
could easily be done with a matrix with Xft2, I dont know about the other
back-ends. It would be much nicer for Tabbed layouts where the tabs are on
the side... Any chance this will ever be done?
Comment 1 Owen Taylor 2002-11-25 17:16:42 UTC 
The plan for rotated text is that it is more or less just
an option for rendering ... the coordinate system for 
PangoLayout is always conceptually 

"More or less" - you do actually need to indicate the 
rotation angle when laying out the text because the 
metrics will be different because of hinting.

The main blocker for supporting rotated text is that we
really can't do it until we ditch support for the X backend
of Pango, since it's just too messy to worry about for
the core X protocol.

The more interesting related question is handling 
vertical writing directions; I just copied the text 
from TODO.xml about this into bug 99523
Comment 2 Owen Taylor 2004-11-23 15:49:44 UTC 
Some support was in 1.6, full support is in CVS now, will be in Pango-1.8.
(GTK+ support is also in CVS and scheduled for GTK+-2.6)