Recipe 9.18. Creating Text that Can Be Rotated

Problem

You want to make sure that some text continues to display, even when it's rotated.

Solution

Use embedded fonts.

Discussion

Unless you specifically use an embedded font, text fields use device fonts. For most situations, this is perfectly workable. However, in situations in which you want to rotate a text field or its parent container (e.g., you want to place a label next to an object vertically), you must use embedded fonts. Device fonts disappear when rotating a text field.

See Also

Recipe 9.17 explains how to embed fonts.