90 Degree Rotated Text

Hi All,

I think the answer is no based on my research, but can a text element (label etc) be rotated CCW 90 degrees to appear vertical on a report? If not, are there an plans for this?

Output PDF.

Best regards

David

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robilco

Seems to be possible using a Custom Plugin

See 1st links here: http://www.actuate.com/products/resources/?articleid=22889

dbmathis

Thanks, is this something I need to read the book to understand how to implement? I just threw it into the plugin directory (version 3.7.2) and it failed to load up and threw and error. 
 
<pre class='_prettyXprint _lang-auto _linenums:0'>
An unexpected internal exception occurred. Please see log for detail.
Plug-in Provider:Eclipse BIRT Project
Plug-in Name:BIRT Designer UI
Plug-in ID:org.eclipse.birt.report.designer.ui
Version:3.7.2.v20120213
Error Code:Error.GUIException.invokedByUnexpectedException
Error Message:Plug-in org.eclipse.birt.sample.reportitem.rotatedlabel was unable to load class org.eclipse.birt.sample.reportitem.rotatedlabel.RotatedLabelUI.</pre>
 
 
<blockquote class='ipsBlockquote' data-author="'robilco'" data-cid="110507" data-time="1350315486" data-date="15 October 2012 - 08:38 AM">
Seems to be possible using a Custom Plugin 
 
See 1st links here: <a class='bbc_url' href='http://www.actuate.com/products/resources/?articleid=22889'>http://www.actuate.com/products/resources/?articleid=22889</a> </blockquote>

bgbaird

There is a free plug-in control by Innovent in the marketplace that does it:

http://code.google.com/a/eclipselabs.org/p/birt-controls-lib/?redir=1

dbmathis

Yeah, I have seen all of these plugins in my research. Does anyone know if this feature is slated for the default install of BIRT? Seems like a feature many are wanting. I am not convinced that plugins are reliable and and scalable.

dbmathis

I tried the Innovent version and the output is horrible. I am using a white Arial font against a blue background and it's producing a faint white font with a thin black outline.

. You can see my tedious workaround in this image as well where I have photoshop'e images and then added them to the table cells. I wanted to set the images to embedded background images but there is a BIRT bug with that.

I can only imagine that there have been many before me that have been bitten by this.

http://www.birt-exchange.org/org/forum/index.php/topic/28001-embedded-background-images/

See attached.

Yaytay

Hi,

What's your output format? The SpudSoft emitter for Excel can rotate text to any angle.
No use if you are outputting HTM

Jim

dbmathis

PDF.

Yaytay

Then I'm afraid the only option I know is the Innovent control, sorry.
It is, I believe, open source, so you could fix any rendering issues you can find with it.

Jim