<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META name=GENERATOR content="MSHTML 8.00.6001.19019"> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Have been trying to write vertical text like this</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>H</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>e</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>l</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>l</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>o</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>using pangocairo on win32, but am having absolutely no luck at all. The code I'm using is the following</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>PangoLayout *layout= pango_cairo_create_layout (cr);<BR>PangoContext*  context = pango_layout_get_context(layout);</FONT> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>PangoFontDescription *font_description;</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial> pango_context_set_gravity_hint(context,PANGO_GRAVITY_HINT_STRONG);<BR> pango_context_set_base_gravity(context,PANGO_GRAVITY_EAST);<BR> font_description =pango_font_description_from_string("Micr 27");</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial> pango_layout_set_font_description(layout,font_description);</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>pango_font_description_free(font_description);</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>pango_layout_context_changed(layout);</DIV> <DIV>pango_layout_set_markup(layout,"Hello",-1);</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>cairo_translate(cr,60,20);<BR>cairo_set_source_rgb(cr, 0.0, 0.0, 0.0);</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>cairo_rotate(cr,M_PI/2);<BR>pango_cairo_update_context(cr,context);</DIV> <DIV>pango_cairo_show_layout (cr, layout);<BR></DIV> <DIV>g_object_unref (layout);</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>With Pango_GRAVITY_SOUTH everything works fine, but as soon as I change this I get squares. Looked at a bunch of example (linux based) and these don't seem to work in my case either. Am I missing a step that is required for windows to get this working.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Thanks</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Michael<BR></DIV></FONT><FONT size=2 face=Arial></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>