Drawing rotated text with NSString drawInRect

I found this answer on how to draw rotated text with NSString drawInRect:, but I'm not sure how it works since it only sort of works for me: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1779814?start=0&tstart=0 My code looks like: CGContextSaveGState(context); CGContextDrawLinearGradient(context, gradient, CGPointMake(0, centY - halfWidth), CGPointMake(0, centY + halfWidth), 0);