A couple interesting things I found do point to rotating text, but not within a block table:
The first would mean taking the drawing of the form in another direction, using linePlots rather than blockTables (this comes from within z3c.rml source): http://svn.zope.org/*checkout*/z3c.rml/trunk/src/z3c/rml/tests/input/tag-linePlot.rml Another thing I found was someone who had used platypus to subclass Flowable to make their own flowable that draws at a 90% angle, but that would mean changing (through adaptation?) the zope rml code itself: http://two.pairlist.net/pipermail/reportlab-users/2006-October/005381.html I don't know if we want to consider hard-coding the report with platypus, but there is always that possibility On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Tom Hoffman <[email protected]> wrote: > You can also ask on the ReportLab mailing list. Just be aware that > the RML implementation we use isn't ReportLab's. So basically I'd > just ask if ReportLab can do it. And if the answer is "no," it > definitely can't be done in RML. I'm not sure who we ask about the > RML implementation, aside from perhaps Stephan, since he did a lot of > the work on it. > > Also, the POV crew does a lot with ReportLab, so they probably know as > well as anyone. > > --Tom > > On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 3:32 PM, Alan Elkner <[email protected]> wrote: >> I've done more than a quick skim, and I haven't found any rotation >> capability for anything related to text. I was beginning to consider >> making the headings into a graphic in some graphics tool and then >> using the graphics on the page, but that would mean text was >> untranslatable. >> >> On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Tom Hoffman <[email protected]> wrote: >>> You can look in the ReportLab documentation to see how it works, if at >>> all in the underlying library (i.e., ReportLab itself). >>> >>> http://www.reportlab.com/software/documentation/ >>> >>> You can rotate graphics, but I don't see text with a quick skim. >>> >>> --Tom >>> >>> On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 2:21 AM, Alan Elkner <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Guys, >>>> >>>> Does anyone know how to rotate text in a table cell in an rml >>>> template? I looked over the various user guides for RML including >>>> z3c.rml itself, and they mention is the self-terminating rotate tag >>>> which appears to apply to a whole page. I'm looking just to rotate >>>> text in a particular cell. >>>> >>>> Does anyone know have any experience rotating text in cells, and if >>>> not, is there someone we could ask? >>>> >>>> Thanks, >>>> Alan >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~schooltool-developers >>>> Post to : [email protected] >>>> Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~schooltool-developers >>>> More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >>>> >>> >> > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~schooltool-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~schooltool-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
