I know this question has been asked before, but I cant find an answer that I like ;-) So here it is again. How do I create vertical text in perl tk? Im looking for a solution that involves changing the text to an image and rotating the image. Is there a way to do that? I know I could use Zinc or other extensions, but it has to work on a bunch of machines across a network, and trying to maintain the zinc installation has a host of problems on our setup. So I want to do it with straight perl tk. I can also stack the letters vertically, but that looks realy bad. Not sure if any rotated fonts exist, but again that involves installing the font on a bunch of systems, which is problematic for me. Can a rotated font be created on the fly from an existing font? thanks for any ideas! Karl

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