I was also confronted with this problem of providing non-horizontal
text and simply gave up on it. Thanks to Kay C Lan for this solution,
and also for showing once again that anything can be achieved with
RunRev and creative thinking.
Cheers,
Roger
On Jun 13, 2009, at 10:00 AM, [email protected]
wrote:
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
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