[Lazarus] TFreeTypeFont Rotated Text

[Michael Van Canneyt]

On Sat, 28 May 2011, Alexander Klenin wrote:

> On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 07:57, Michael Van Canneyt
> <michael at freepascal.org> wrote:
>> The Free Pascal FreeType has no support for orientation, for the simple
>> reason that the property didn't exist when freetype support was implemented.
>>
>> You don't need to take my word for it, just check the sources.
>
> I have already checked them when I implemented font rotation in
> TAChart/FPCanvas.
> See
> https://github.com/graemeg/freepascal/blob/master/packages/fcl-image/src/ftfont.pp#L238
> https://github.com/graemeg/lazarus/blob/upstream/components/tachart/tadrawerfpcanvas.pas#L255

Ah. Well, how am I supposed to know about that ?
The Git repository is private for Graeme. Changes to it are not communicated back to FPC.

Why did you not submit a patch to FPC ?

Michael.