Re: Radial text on a path

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"2D Rick" <rbrowniii@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Thanks [to Ken] for your reply. This is what I'm looking for
> except the output to printer is a bit shaky.

I had a quick look myself at the code at the link that Ken posted and it
didn't quite get the angles right in the Picture Box (particularly the
position of the first character). Also, with just a cursory glance I could
see that it couldn't possibly produce radially aligned text characters to
the printer, so I didn't bother checking the printer output (you cannot
print "rotated" text characters using the Printer.Print method). However, I
imagine that if you modified it to solve that problem it might work okay.
How did you get it to print rotated text to the printer (I assume you did so
since you have commented on the output to the printer being a bit shaky)?

The poor output might actually be a problem with the way you modified the
code. True Type fonts when sent to the printer are usually of very high
quality (although on the screen of course they are naff because of the very
limited screen resolution). Post again with precise details of what you
want. If you're after drawing text to follow an arbitrarily shaped curve
then I don't think I'll have time to do that, but if all you want is text in
a circle then I should be able to knock something up for you. If you tell us
exactly what you want then maybe we can come uo with something. For example,
do you want the individual characters of the "circular" text to be normally
aligned (each character printed upright) or do you want the individual
characters to be radially aligned? Also, whether you are using what would
normally be a proportuionally spaced font or not, do you want the character
spacing (the angle between individual characters) constant between each
character (which is what I would personally suggest for "text in a circle").
Give us as much detail as you can.

> I hope to find or write something similar that will output
> a crisp vector radial text on a path. The printer cuts a
> stencil used to mark turbine engine parts so I need very
> legible output.

True Type fonts print out very crisply on high resolution output devices
(even though they might not look very good when output to a typical 96
pixels per inch screen display). If your printer has a decent resolution
then you will get decent output. What is the default resolution of the
printer you are using, and what is its maximum resolution?

Mike




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