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[info exists ALPHA($ch)]} { set ch 63 } lappend ltxt $ch set iname "::img::rot::$ch" if {[lsearch [image names] $iname] == -1} { image create photo $iname -data $ALPHA($ch) } incr h [image height $iname] } set img [image create photo -width 21 -height $h] set y 0 foreach ch $ltxt { $img copy ::img::rot::$ch -to 0 $y incr y [image height ::img::rot::$ch] } return $img } # Demo code pack [canvas .c] set x 100 foreach word {"Now is the" "time for all" "good men" "to come to the aid" "of their country"} { set img [::RotatedFont::CreateRotateTextImage $word] .c create image [incr x -13] 10 -image $img -anchor nw } return
Also see "Rotate text and images using img extension", "Rotate text on a canvas", "Vector Font"...
KBK 2008-11-03 I was sufficiently intrigued with this idea to do it directly in the canvas, creating 'line' items for the rotated text. There's a demonstrator in the Half Bakery at http://wiki.tcl.tk/_repo/hershey/