[pdftex] box transformation macro

[John Culleton]

On Friday 12 November 2004 02:22, Thierry Bouche wrote:
> Le jeudi 11 novembre 2004 vers 20:31:38, Pawel Jackowski écrivait :
>
> P> Hi All,
>
> P> two days ago I was asked to post to GUST (Polish TeX Users Group)
> P> mailing list a pdfTeX-based (plainish) macro for box transformations
> P> (scaling, rotating, slanting etc). I've prepared something usable,
> but P> I'm almost sure that there are already made macros of that type.
> Could P> you recommend something to compare?
>
> David Carlisle's graphicx.tex has been doing that for years, except
> maybe slanting.
>
> it's just a wrapper around graphics.sty, the only thing is that you have
> to define manually pdftex as the backend to use.

The demonstration program example.tex that comes with the pdftex 
distribution has examples of text rotated, slanted, stretched etc. It is 
located at 
/usr/share/texmf/doc/pdftex/base/example.tex

on my Linux system. 



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