Christian wrote once into c.l.t.:
BLT can create (semi-transparent) bitmaps of text in arbitrary directions.
Try the following:
package require BLT
::blt::bitmap compose myNewBitmap "this is a text" \
-font "Arial 10 bold" \
-rotate 90 \
-justify left
$myCanvas create bitmap 50 50 -bitmap myNewBitmap \
-foreground blue \
-anchor nw \
...This works nicely.
RS: Shouldn't the font rather be called Arial (or Helvetica, for even more platform-independence)?
It's nice on the screen, but less nice on postscript output. Ability to rotate any standard canvas object would be a nice upgrade to Tk. IDG
RS: see photo image rotation and canvas rotation (for lines and polygons)
But blt-bitmaps cannot be destroyed, so the memory will be full of bitmaps when using this way too often.
See Rotated canvas text for how some X servers can do this with pure Tk
KBK 2008-11-03 Or look at http://wiki.tcl.tk/_repo/hershey/ for a way to do it in pure Tcl/Tk with only line drawing.