On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 8:22 AM, Richard Gaskin <[email protected]>wrote:
Ideally these would be at a 45-degree angle, so each could be clearly > associated with the column they relate to but still be reasonably readable. > But I'd prefer 45 degrees, and that means doing each label in its own > operation, not the speediest thing in the world since I may have up to a > hundred or even two hundred labels to produce. > > But that's not the hard part. The hardest part is printing. Argh. > Printing an image of text will be jaggies-hell compared to the smooth > appearance of native vector-rendered text. > > Any of you doing angled or vertically-oriented text? Any tips you can > share? > Haven't done it before, but just had a quick play around and was quite impressed with what I could achieve. It doesn't look as though it would be impossible to do programmatically, but it would certainly be easier with a mono-spaced font. A coupe of things I note, for Monaco: There is no difference between the formattedWidth of the field if the text is horizontal or 45 degrees. The relationship seems to be, textHeight needs to be set to half the textSize Creating the content of the label field, starrt with two blank lines then simply loop through each char of 'my label here' placing each char on a new line and increment the number of preceding spaces by 1. get the formattedWidth and formattedHeight to determine how big the label field needs to be. Conveniently, with margins set to 0, and the field set to it's formatted width and height, the last letter of the content is nicely placed in the bottom right corner. Tested for font size 10 to 36. In the case where all the labels, Font Style and Size are all predefined, ie not user modifiable, I'd create an array, saved in a custom property, the key would be the label, the element a 3 item list, height, width, content (the label with the leading blank lines and all the chars with their preceding spaces on their own lines) Extracting and setting the data would be very quick. No problems printing. HTH _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
