[reportlab-users] Rotated paragraph/document with ReportLab (vertical text)

[Robin Becker]

I'm not sure exactly why you want to do this, but the code below is a start
you will need to tweak the translate here to get exactly what you want as we 
will obviously be rotating about a place that's not exactly clear ie the center 
of the top line.

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from reportlab.platypus.doctemplate import SimpleDocTemplate
from reportlab.lib.styles import getSampleStyleSheet
from reportlab.lib.enums import TA_CENTER
from reportlab.platypus.paragraph import Paragraph
class RotatedPara(Paragraph):
	def draw(self):
		self.canv.saveState()
		self.canv.translate(0,0)
		self.canv.rotate(90)
		Paragraph.draw(self)
		self.canv.restoreState()

style = getSampleStyleSheet()
normal = style["Normal"]
normal.alignment = TA_CENTER
normal.fontName = "Helvetica"
normal.fontSize = 15

pdf = SimpleDocTemplate("rotatedpara.pdf", pagesize = (80, 250),
rightMargin=10, leftMargin=10, topMargin=20,bottomMargin=20)
story = []
text = "I really need this to be wrapped and vertical!"

para = RotatedPara(text, normal)
story.append(para)
pdf.build(story)
#########################

On 25/10/2012 14:16, Jesus Sanchez-Palencia wrote:

> Hi!

>

> I'm trying to get something like the following snippet to actually

> draw this document rotated by 90 degrees. The pagesize is already the

> way I want it in the end, but the text is still horizontal. How can I

> rotate the text making it vertical?

> What I want in the end is something similar to calling

> canvas.rotate(90)  and then canvas.drawString(), but I want to take

> the advantage of word wrapping from Paragraph...

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-- 
Robin Becker