[cairo] Vertical text

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 06:49 -0400, Olivier Jolet wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I’m trying to draw a text vertically, but I always get a 90 degree
> rotation of the whole text and not of each character. 
> 
> The method I tried to use is font matrix transformation to a PI/2
> rotation.
> 
> What is incorrect in my sequence? How can I do to rotate each
> character?

Cairo does not currently support vertical text.  It most probably will
in cairo-1.6.0.  See
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/cairo/2007-January/009372.html

However, the freetype backend already supports vertical text.  See
tests/ft-text-vertical-layout-type1.c in cairo's source dis

>  - cairo_matrix_init
> 
>  - cairo_matrix_rotate
> 
>  - cairo_matrix_scale                                        
> 
>  - cairo_set_font_matrix
> 
>  - cairo_move_to
> 
>  - cairo_show_text

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