Hello Bob,
On (09 Oct 96) Bob Sawyer wrote to Phil Heberer...
 BS> Thanks for the reply. I have a LaserJet 4p, and the text
 BS> edit box (WP 6.0 DOS) shows no rotation option, so I installed
 BS> a Canon BJ-600 (no driver available for the BJ-610), and the
 BS> text edit box still showed no rotation option. Either my HP
I guess I should have mentioned I'm using WPWin 6.1, and it was the
KX-P2123 that I used earlier with WPDos 6.0b. In WPWin 6.1, I can
rotate the text via the "handles" on the corner when the text box is
selected. The dialogue box with WPD 6.0 did have a box to check though
for rotating the text (try loading a WP Panasonic 2123 driver if you
want to check that out)
 BS> LaserJet allows only the landscape and portrait options for
 BS> the whole sheet, or my WP version is not like yours, or the
 BS> BJ-600 does not allow rotation variations, or...
A little of all of the above, perhaps?
 BS> >around it is to print the whole page graphically.
 BS> Ah, yes. I messed with that before putting up the message.
 BS> I see only two ways to create a graphic segment of text on
 BS> a page with an orientation unlike the segment: use the
 BS> equation editor (does not allow all the font and appearance
 BS> changed I need for the segment), or create the segment,
 BS> scan it in, and rotate it in a graphic box. That may work,
One thing that I hadn't considered is that a laser printer is
page-oriented, whereas a dot-matrix/inkjet is more line oriented and
has better support for bit-mapped graphics. If it can be done as you
wish, perhaps someone with that particular printer can jump in here
with some ideas.
Cheers,
Phil
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