Rotate or flip a data element upside down

Hi I am using 4.2.2 and I have tried to use this plugin I found here <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://code.google.com/a/eclipselabs.org/p/birt-controls-lib/'>http://code.google.com/a/eclipselabs.org/p/birt-controls-lib/</a> to rotate a data element. I was able to have the tool appear in my palate but once i rotated anything it just outputs very blurred text which isn't acceptable for its use. The plugin is for 2.5 i believe but i haven't found anything for more recent versions. Is there a way to do this with JavaScript or with a plugin? thanksRyan

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Ka Lai

Hello
 
Has no one a idea how to flip text in BIRT?
 
Is there a similar plugin, or better is there a solution without plugins? Our reports runs on a unix server and there is no eclipse installation and never would be. So plugins for eclipse doesn't work for me.
 
Thanks for any help.

Clement Wong

The plugins will work for on your UNIX server because the plugin is for the BIRT Engine, and not for Eclipse itself.
 
The other alternative for rotated text without a plugin is to use a Dynamic Text Control and CSS. However, this method will not export to PDF, but works well in the web viewer.
 
See attached for an example. The example code is:
<pre class="_prettyXprint">
<div style="padding:0px;position:absolute;transform:rotate(45deg);transform:rotate(45deg);-ms-transform:rotate(45deg);-webkit-transform:rotate(45deg);">
Rotated text!
</div></pre>

Susanne

<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote">
 
 
I was able to have the tool appear in my palate but once i rotated anything it just outputs very blurred text which isn't acceptable for its use.</blockquote>
 
Hello,
is this bug fixed anyhow yet? I had no problem with the plugin as well but the output was illegible with Web Viewer as well as with PDF or HTML. I am using Birt Version 4.5.0
 
thanks in advance