[vtkusers] Y label strange in vtkAxesActor

[Frederic Perez]

Hello Billy,

then, using the knowledge shared by Julien, you might try a quick-and-dirty
hack to render that Y letter completely by substituting the label from "Y"
to "Y " (with an extra space). Would that work? Didn't try it myself..

Frederic

On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 3:22 PM, Julien Finet <julien.finet at kitware.com>wrote:

> What is wrong:
> The right part of the Y letter is drawn on the left side (-> letter wrap).
>
> :-)
>
> Explanation attempt:
> Because the text is in Italic, vtkTextActor fails to pick the correct font
> size for a given area to draw in.
> It wrongly picks a width too narrow, so when it renders the letter as a
> texture within a (too narrow) area, the texture wraps.
> You might want to investigate within vtkTextActor (especially
> vtkTextActor::ComputeScaledFont) and aggregated classes.
>
> For information, vtkAxesActor uses vtkCaptionActor2D that internally uses
> a vtkTextActor with a CaptionTextProperty text property that is
> bold,italic,arial,with shadows.
>
> Hth,
> Julien.
>
> On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 4:17 PM, Billy Araujo <billyaraujo at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> What is wrong with y label?
>>
>> Billy.
>>
>>
>> [image: Inline image 1]
>>
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