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Can it display rotated (non-animated) text?
by Roland on Monday 15/Sep/2003, @23:13

One of the biggest shortcomings of HTML is the lack of rotated text.

Is the KSVG-implementation in KDE 3.2 able to display a simple text which is rotated for example by 90°?

Thanks

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Re: Can it display rotated (non-animated) text?
by Rob Buis on Monday 15/Sep/2003, @23:33

Hi,

Yes KSVG can both display simple text at any rotation/scale as well as display
top-to-bottom scripts. Try it if you dont believe me :)
Cheers,

Rob.

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Re: Can it display rotated (non-animated) text?
by Haakon Nilsen on Tuesday 16/Sep/2003, @04:29

The lack of rotated text is NOT a shortcoming of HTML. It's at best a lack of CSS. Sorry, it had to be said :)

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Re: Can it display rotated (non-animated) text?
by Niels on Wednesday 17/Sep/2003, @03:24

I think it will be in CSS 3.

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Re: Can it display rotated (non-animated) text?
by jeremyn on Tuesday 30/Sep/2003, @02:34

You should be able to adress this with CSS3 when support for CSS3 becomes widespread(read- when hell freezes over, when ipv6 support is in all OS's). SVG, or PNG images are probably a better idea for now. SVG support is not all that great either, so probably images are a better solution for now. The writing-mode property in the text module will let you you get 90 degree rotated text, but its a nasty hack seeing as that property is meant to help display mongolian...

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Re: Can it display rotated (non-animated) text?
by Basti Bla on Wednesday 28/Jan/2004, @12:16

yes it can be done

<p style="DIRECTION: ltr; WRITING-MODE: tb-rl">rotated text</p>
<div style="DIRECTION: ltr; WRITING-MODE: tb-rl">rotated text</div>

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Re: Can it display rotated (non-animated) text?
by Gecko on Sunday 30/Oct/2005, @02:07

Very old thread, but since I found this looking for an answer to the same question, I suppose I can revive it.

writing-mode is not part of any CSS standard. It is part of the XSL recommendation (http://www.w3.org/TR/xsl/slice7.html#writing-mode-related), though. So I guess it is a bad idea to rely on it for now.

writing-mode is not implemented in Mozilla browsers (Mozilla, Firefox, Netscape) as of Firefox 1.7.

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Re: Can it display rotated (non-animated) text?
by Raphael on Friday 09/Dec/2005, @05:02

Did you check the CSS3 text module?

http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/CR-css3-text-20030514/#writing-mode

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Re: Can it display rotated (non-animated) text?
by AHmed Kamal on Tuesday 21/Sep/2004, @08:37

But what about the rotation in the other direction I Want read it from the bottom to the top direction ... is that possible ??

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