HC convert: help with text as graphic or rotated text

[Scott Rossi]

You can't physically rotate text, but you can create an image of text and
rotate that.  Here's one example of doing this.  Execute the following in
your Rev message box:
go url "http://www.tactilemedia.com/site_files/downloads/textspinner.rev"

If you want to print out the results, you could try creating your text at 4x
the final size and then scaling down the imported text image/s to 25%.  Kind
of a pain to do but should give better print results.  You could do all the
manipulation in a hidden stack if necessary.

Hope this helps.

Scott Rossi
Creative Director
Tactile Media, Multimedia & Design



On 12/24/09 9:13 AM, "Emmett Gray" <film2 at handheldfilm.com> wrote:

> I'm new to the list and this is my first post. I've done my first
> successful stack conversion from Hypercard so I'm up to speed on the
> basics. My next conversion project involves a custom CD C-card
> printer, which converts a CD premaster text file (with pq codes etc.)
> into what you want to see on the back of a CD jewel box sent for
> review or duplication. The HC stack copies the album title text,
> which appears in a field at the top of the back panel, and deletes
> the existing card picture, hides all fields and buttons, types that
> text as a graphic, draws a selection box around it and rotates it 90
> degrees and positions it to form one spine of the CD,, and then
> duplicates and rotates 180 degrees and positions it for the other
> spine, then shows all fields and buttons again.
> 
> If there is a way to rotate text in Rev I would have an easy
> solution. I didn't find it, nor can I find a text as graphic tool in
> Rev to do it the HC way... TIA for help.
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