[reportlab-users] Rotated Text

[Chris Hobbs]

I'm sure that this question has been asked and answered dozens of times but I can find it neither in the FAQs, nor in the mailing lists (is there a search option for the mailing list?).

I need to place a line of text on the pdf canvas at a particular angle (say 37 degrees to the horizontal). In the user manual there is a tantalizing mention of 

 textobject.setTextTransform(a,b,c,d,e,f)

but no further mention of what a to f are.

Any help would be appreciated.

Chris Hobbs

[Mike Driscoll]

I found this example a year or so ago and it worked then:

http://www.local-guru.net/blog/2009/4/9/rotated-text-in-reportlabs

The canvas method you are looking for called rotate(). This StackOverflow link also has an example: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13061545/rotated-document-with-reportlab-vertical-text

Hope that helps,
Mike
 

[Chris Hobbs]

Many thanks. Worked almost like a dream. My problem was with the angle (which must be in degrees rather than radians).

Thanks again

Chris