From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 26 20:26:51 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2A1F106566C for ; Tue, 26 May 2009 20:26:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from mx01.qsc.de (mx01.qsc.de [213.148.129.14]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2AAF8FC0C for ; Tue, 26 May 2009 20:26:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Received: from r55.edvax.de (port-92-195-65-8.dynamic.qsc.de [92.195.65.8]) by mx01.qsc.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E7433D4DB; Tue, 26 May 2009 22:26:47 +0200 (CEST) Received: from r55.edvax.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by r55.edvax.de (8.14.2/8.14.2) with SMTP id n4QKQguj001916; Tue, 26 May 2009 22:26:42 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from freebsd@edvax.de) Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 22:26:42 +0200 From: Polytropon To: Andrew Gould Message-Id: <20090526222642.4c074774.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: References: <20090526213538.31defd77.freebsd@edvax.de> Organization: EDVAX X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.7 (GTK+ 2.12.1; i386-portbld-freebsd7.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: A FreeBSD program that rotates text X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Polytropon List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 20:26:52 -0000 On Tue, 26 May 2009 14:48:21 -0500, Andrew Gould wrote: > Check out the Gimp tutorial regarding "text to path": > > http://gimp-tutorials.net/gimp-text-to-path-tutorial > > Does this meet your needs? Yes, I think so. Thanks! I just have to figure out how to draw circles 'n stuff. I've never used The Gimp for drawing before, but it seems to be okay for this task. Seems that it's not wrong to learn a bit Gimp. By the way, I had a look at XFig - anyone knows this? Looks and feels very professional, at least I found things quicker than in Gimp. But XFig doesn't seem to be able to align Text on a circle. And Wojciech, because me fail math, doing it in LaTeX seems to be too complicated right now. What I have is an image of what will be in the center of the circle (needs to be clipped against the circle perimeter, and maybe scaled). I've used some google and found that there's a \cicle macro that can draw circles d, position with put (x, y), but alignment of text to the circle and rotating it seems to be a job - as you suggested - for pre-calculated values, like doing a put(position, rotate(character, degree)). Do [ Me continue Gimp() until fail; redo in \LaTeX{} then ]; until 1400 tomorrow. :-) // -- Polytropon >From Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...