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[Tom Hoffman <tom.hoffman@xxxxxxxxx>]

What do you need this for?

--Tom

On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 3:56 PM, Alan Elkner <aelkner@xxxxxxxxx> 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 <tom.hoffman@xxxxxxxxx> 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 <aelkner@xxxxxxxxx> 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 <tom.hoffman@xxxxxxxxx> 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 <aelkner@xxxxxxxxx> 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
>>>>>
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