Originally Posted by
Alex Edwards 
Do you want to draw an image from a file, or do you want to be able to "rotate" a set of pixels such that they emulate a rotating String?
This can be either really simple or hard depending on where you want to rotate. If you have variable rotation points, this sill be incredibly hard.
I'll eventually be turning the JPanel into a GIF, but no, nothing to do with files in this part of the program. I'm hoping not to have to try to mess with the pixels myself. I just want to be able to specify the text, the font, and the angle, and have the program display that text in that font onto the JPanel/JFrame or whatever, at that angle. If possible, I'd like to do it just like drawString does it, but at an angle.