[reportlab-users] Rotated Text

[Chris Hobbs]

Many thanks. Worked almost like a dream. My problem was with the angle
(which must be in degrees rather than radians).

Thanks again

Chris


On 11 March 2014 17:14, Mike Driscoll <kyosohma at gmail.com> wrote:


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>

> On Tuesday, March 11, 2014 3:54:24 PM UTC-5, Chris Hobbs wrote:

>>

>> I'm sure that this question has been asked and answered dozens of times

>> but I can find it neither in the FAQs, nor in the mailing lists (is there a

>> search option for the mailing list?).

>>

>> I need to place a line of text on the pdf canvas at a particular angle

>> (say 37 degrees to the horizontal). In the user manual there is a

>> tantalizing mention of

>>

>>  textobject.setTextTransform(a,b,c,d,e,f)

>>

>> but no further mention of what a to f are.

>>

>> Any help would be appreciated.

>>

>> Chris Hobbs

>>

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>

> I found this example a year or so ago and it worked then:

>

> http://www.local-guru.net/blog/2009/4/9/rotated-text-in-reportlabs

>

> The canvas method you are looking for called rotate(). This StackOverflow

> link also has an example:

> https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13061545/rotated-document-with-reportlab-vertical-text

>

> Hope that helps,

> Mike

>

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