>I've started a simple little gtk / gnomecanvas floor plan >drawing application. I need to figure out how to >rotate gnome canvas text at an arbitrary angle (to put >dimensions on the floor plan). Also, I want to be able >to print an anti-aliased gnomecanvas with high >resolution to give to an architect. (I've been just taking >screenshots of the canvas which is cumbersome and >doesn't look very good). How can I do these things? Thanks to everyone who replied to me... I'll quickly summarize what I've learned. Don't use gnomecanvas for new applications. If your application doesn't really need the features of a canvas, just use cairo. It has Linux and Windows support (I posted a howto to the gtk list on how to cross compile a simple gtk/cairo app from Linux to Windows) and seems to be pretty feature complete (although the documentation seems a bit scattered and incomplete). If you really need a canvas, somebody pointed me to some canvases at http://www.cairographics.org/examples. Some of them are quite impressive. I've read that gtk is planning on incorporating a canvas into gtk. If you need a canvas and can wait, I'd recommend waiting to see what they pick. David _________________________________________________________________ Get the new Windows Live Messenger! http://imagine-msn.com/messenger/launch80/default.aspx?locale=en-us&source=wlmailtagline _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
