Hi, Dennis Bjorklund <db@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> Pango didn't have support for letter spacing yet nor does it support >> vertical text. > > The release notes for pango 1.5 includes this which I hope should > help with the vertical text (or any angle): > > * Add support for rotated rendering to the FT2 backend Vertical text is different from rotated text. Text transformations will go into GIMP 2.4 (and will most likely not use the Pango text transform routines). Vertical text however has the glyphs all upright but is rendered from top to bottom (like chinese). Sven
