Date: Tue, 26 May 2009 22:26:42 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Andrew Gould <andrewlylegould@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: A FreeBSD program that rotates text Message-ID: <20090526222642.4c074774.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <d356c5630905261248p61bd8d75o6979193bb95a5e73@mail.gmail.com> References: <20090526213538.31defd77.freebsd@edvax.de> <d356c5630905261248p61bd8d75o6979193bb95a5e73@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, 26 May 2009 14:48:21 -0500, Andrew Gould <andrewlylegould@gmail.com> 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, ...
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