sideways text

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I'm making a signal routing matrix and it would be simpler if some of the labeling is oriented sideways, ie 90 deg from horizontal. Is there a way to do this? All I can think of is to do something in photochop
anyway back to the subject... and then import blah blah boring

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I think something like Photoshop is your best bet.

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While we're talking about text.... I'd love this feature. It'd also be nifty if there were some way to include font packages inside a binary or collective file.

nick rothwell | project cassiel's icon

On 6 Feb 2009, at 06:35, Chris Muir wrote:

> I think something like Photoshop is your best bet.

Nonsense:

Sideways text, justified text, text which can be saved by pattr.
Washes your car as well.

Having said that, I notice that in Max5 on the Mac the Tahoma and
Optima fonts don't seem to be available, so you'll get a pile of font-
not-found errors on launch, but apart from that it seems to work fine.
I'll fix the release.

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>Having said that, I notice that in Max5 on the Mac the Tahoma and
Optima

not 100% sure but i think it may be because JSUI in Max5 is case sensitive when it comes to fonts. Check you didn't write "tahoma" in your script

oli

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On 6 Feb 2009, at 11:59, Oliver Larkin wrote:

> not 100% sure but i think it may be because JSUI in Max5 is case
> sensitive when it comes to fonts. Check you didn't write "tahoma" in
> your script

Nope. Accordingly, it's now in as a bug report...

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Quote: nick rothwell / cassiel wrote on Fri, 06 February 2009 20:51
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> Sideways text, justified text, text which can be saved by pattr.
> Washes your car as well.
>
Excellent! I just knew there was some genius out there who could help. Thanks, will try it out over the weekend.
T

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On 6 Feb 2009, at 21:54, Terry McDermott wrote:

> Excellent! I just knew there was some genius out there who could
> help. Thanks, will try it out over the weekend.

Any problems, omissions in the documentation, or general feedback,
please drop me a line.

(I'm looking into opening loadbang.net for user comments, but need to
get some anti-spam protection in place first.)

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Quote: Terry McDermott wrote on Thu, 05 February 2009 21:35
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> I'm making a signal routing matrix and it would be simpler if some of the labeling is oriented sideways, ie 90 deg from horizontal. Is there a way to do this? All I can think of is to do something in photochop
> anyway back to the subject... and then import blah blah boring
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or get crazy and use jit.text.2D or 3D and rotate it via the GL commands. would only need to render it once. though you probably only want to have something like a comment rotated instead of this workaround :)