Help with analog clock with text images as hour and minute arms.

[Martin Baxter]

Hi Andy,

FWIW, When I did this some years ago, I made 2 custom fonts for it, however
I didn't bother roatating anything but simply made 12 hour hands, 60 minute
hands and 60 second hands (plus one clock face) as individual characters.
This seemed good enough for my purpose at the time. One font was "modern"
and the other "antique"

The fonts were essentially monospaced, so there were no problems aligning
characters on top of one another. A script changed the time display using
numtochar().

The "antique ornate" version was a gas, especially in italic !!

I should still have them somewhere if you want to have a look at them (they
were in mac TT format).

Martin Baxter

>
>My new project is an analog clock but instead of using circle arcs, I want
>to use text as the hour and minute arms.
>
>The problem I'm running into is the text rotates around it's midpoint. Is
>there a way to rotate the text's x,y point that represent the left,"mid-Y"
>of the textheight around the clock's centerpoint or around the tangent
>points on a circle???
>
>I tried creating a line (polygon) and grouping the text image to that but
>that didn't work.
>
>Would it be best to create each "step" of each arm in Photoshop and show
>each in succession as time goes by???
>
>Any thoughts?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Andy Burns