https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48804

--- Comment #27 from Eyal Rozenberg <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to Regina Henschel from comment #24)
> I see no use case mentioned here, that cannot be done with a text box.

1. You can't nest text boxes in tables, for example, and in some other
entities. 
2. Textboxes don't observe the styling and positioning of regular text; at most
we get anchoring, and even that is often brittle and sensitive.
3. The same argument could be made for 90-degree and 270-rotation.
4. When saving the document, a text box will not be converted back into a
180-degree rotated text. So, implementing this improves document round-trip
stability through the editor.

> I see no use case that is important enough that a company would pay a
> developer for such an enhancement.

I can speculate regarding two such cases:

1. Other office suite vendors, e.g. Microsoft, have, or will have, support for
this angle of rotation - and our import filter will have to either ignore the
angle or rearrange the document to put such text in a textbox.
2. We want to claim we fully support the ODF 1.0 standard. Until this is
resolved, we do not.

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