What do you need this for? --Tom
On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 3:56 PM, Alan Elkner <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
