On Fri, 2014-01-17 at 21:50 +0100, Fabien Bodard wrote: > 2014/1/16 Willy Raets <wi...@earthshipbelgium.be>: > > > > I added some screenshots of how it is implemented at the moment in MS > > Access. As you can see the report designer of MS Access allows for > > labels to be placed vertically on the design (there is a property named > > vertical for textlabels that can be set to yes, it is as simple as > > that). > > > > The second screenshot is a print preview and that is the result I would > > need. As you can see the layout of the Dymo Address Label is portrait, > > the text is printed vertical on the Address Label. > > > > As I am porting this application to Gambas, I need to figure out how > > this can be done in Gambas, as the Dymo Label Writer doesn't have any > > other options to print this. > > > > gb.report doesn't seem to have this possibility and neither does using > > the printer object. Or maybe they can but I haven't discovered it yet. > > > >> > >> > > >> >> > >> >> myPrinter.Orientation = Printer.Landscape > >> >> > >> > > >> > This suggestion sets me to think. The Dymo labels are in portrait in the > >> > Dymo label printer. So making a landscape label on a pdf surface and > >> > next print this in landscape (so actually giving the landscape design a > >> > twist to being printed in portrait) could do the job. I'am going to give > >> > this a try as soon as I am at work. > >> > >> Yes, sometimes things can be tricky :-) > > > > I do think I will try with gb.cairo to see what I can come up with, just > > curious if that would work. But having this option in gb.report would of > > course be much easier :) > > it is in the code of report but it seem i have a bug with path > extents. and the editor don't show the rotation. > > i will correct that. >
That would be great. Thanks -- Kind regards, Willy (aka gbWilly) http://gambasshowcase.org/ http://howtogambas.org http://gambos.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CenturyLink Cloud: The Leader in Enterprise Cloud Services. Learn Why More Businesses Are Choosing CenturyLink Cloud For Critical Workloads, Development Environments & Everything In Between. Get a Quote or Start a Free Trial Today. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=119420431&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user
