Re: patch for text scaling and rotation

[Adam Fedor]

S. V. Ramanan wrote:

> Hi,
>     I have modified (slightly) Alan Richardson's xvertext package 
> (available at 
> http://www.x.org/pub/contrib/libraries/xvertext.5.0.shar.Z, as stated in 
> the X FAQ) for text scaling and rotation. While they work
> for me, I have not done extensive testing, and no testing at all in 
> drawing with alpha.



Well it sounds interesting, except that the licence for it is fairly 
ambiguous. Plus I can't really integrate it anyway without a copyright 
assignment from you and the original author. Perhaps the original author 
could make a special exception for GNUstep?



> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> /* ********************************************************************** */
>
> /* xvertext 5.0, Copyright (c) 1993 Alan Richardson (mppa3@uk.ac.sussex.syma)
>  *
>  * Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its
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>  /* Modified 25 Mar 02 by S. V. Ramanan for GNUStep 
>   * 1. independent x and y scaling added
>   * 2. image cache-ing removed
>   * 3. user-stippling, background and alignment removed
>  */