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Flipping a Text Object 90 Degrees

lenburt

Hello out there -- we are replacing a legacy letter printing solution with BIRT generated letters. Currently there is a requirement to have a barcode imprinted on the far left margin of every other sheet of a letter. 
 
I have been able to get the barcode font and can generate it fine but it flows left to right (horizontal) across the page. I need to be able to rotate it 90 degrees so it is vertical relative to the text of the letter. I did not see any options in the property edition to do this but there are a lot of advanced options which i have not really understood to-date. Is there an easy solution to this?
 
Thx, len

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Matthew L.

Installing this plug-in allows you to rotate text in BIRT:
<a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='https://code.google.com/a/eclipselabs.org/p/birt-controls-lib/'>https://code.google.com/a/eclipselabs.org/p/birt-controls-lib/</a>
 
After installing the plug-in, use the rotated text element instead of the standard element and apply the barcode font to it.
This should generate the result you are looking for.

lenburt

Thanks Matthew - sorry being an idiot, but i have not installed Eclipse plugins before....i tried putting the jar in both the 'dropins' directory and also the 'plugin' directory an i expected to see a new widget in the Pallette after restarting eclipse with -clean. Am i missing something? I am using Eclipse / BIRT 4.2.2. -- len

Matthew L.

No worries, I have some easy steps for adding this plug-in.
First, lets remove the plug-in jars you added to your environment to make sure we do not have a conflict.
(Files are: birt.controls.lib.ui_2.5.2.1.jar, birt.controls.lib_2.5.2.1.jar )
 
Then we can install the jars fresh to the designer:
Download location: <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://code.google.com/a/eclipselabs.org/p/birt-controls-lib/downloads/list'>http://code.google.com/a/eclipselabs.org/p/birt-controls-lib/downloads/list</a> 
Download the 2 following files:
birt.controls.lib.ui_2.5.2.1.jar 
birt.controls.lib_2.5.2.1.jar 
Copy the 2 jar files to the following locations for BIRT (and/or iServer) then restart: 
For OS/Pro BIRT Designer, copy the 2 jar files to: <BIRT_HOME>\eclipse\plugins\ 
For an Actuate iServer, copy the 2 jar files to: <AC_SERVER_HOME>\Jar\BIRT\platform\plugins
 
I've also attached some images of which files to download and what you should see when you start up the designer after copying the 2 jar files to \eclipse\plugins\
 
Also if you needed to use the API calls against this plug-in, I have an example here as well:
<pre class="_prettyXprint _lang-js">
elementFactory = reportContext.getReportRunnable().designHandle.getElementFactory();
rotatedText=elementFactory.newExtendedItem("ex1", "RotatedText");
rotatedText.setProperty("rotationAngle", "90");
rotatedText.setProperty("text", "\"Test\"");
rotatedText.setProperty("wrapPoint", "0in");
rotatedText.setProperty("linkURL", "\"Google.com\"");
rotatedText.setProperty("fontFamily", "sans-serif");
rotatedText.setProperty("fontSize", "30pt");
rotatedText.setProperty("fontStyle", "italic"); //Options: "normal" or "italic"
rotatedText.setProperty("fontWeight", "bold"); //Options: "normal" or "bold"
rotatedText.setProperty("color", "#FF0000");
</pre>

lenburt

Excellent - that works nicely !...thanks for your help.

Matthew L.

No problem, glad I could help out.