Rotating text in postscript
- by Mrgreen
I have the following postscript code:
/outputtext {
/data exch def
/rot exch def
/xfont exch def
/Times-Roman findfont
xfont scalefont
setfont
/y1 exch def
/x1 exch def
x1 y1 moveto
rot rotate
data show
} def
% x y fontsize rotation (text) outputtext
20 300 12 0 (text1) outputtext
20 400 12 90 (text2) outputtext
20 500 12 90 (text3) outputtext
20 600 12 0 (text4) outputtext
showpage
The function simply outputs text based on a x, y co-ords and the text to display, there is also a variable for rotation.
For some reason when I output text with a rotation of 0 degrees, all other text that comes after that will not work, I can't seem to figure out why this is the case.
In the example above, 'text1' and 'text2' will display, but not 3 and 4.