Printing text vertically in classic report

Cem_Karaer

Hello all,

I tried to express my problem in the header text as short as possible. Is it possible to achieve it?

Regards.

Belias

not easily, and not in a "nice" way: search the forum, there are some topics about this.
If i remember well, one solution is to use a "fixed lenght" font type (courier is one of them, i think), draw a vertical textbox and set multiline property to yes.
Another solution is to put a lot of textboxes one under the other and then print one character per textbox (a text variable is an array of characters of lenght 1, thus you can set the sourceexpr of the textboxes to mytext[1], mytext[2] etc.)

Anyway, be careful because you can't manage the height of the resulting string dynamically (obviously).

Cem_Karaer

Belias wrote:

not easily, and not in a "nice" way: search the forum, there are some topics about this.
If i remember well, one solution is to use a "fixed lenght" font type (courier is one of them, i think), draw a vertical textbox and set multiline property to yes.
Another solution is to put a lot of textboxes one under the other and then print one character per textbox (a text variable is an array of characters of lenght 1, thus you can set the sourceexpr of the textboxes to mytext[1], mytext[2] etc.)

Anyway, be careful because you can't manage the height of the resulting string dynamically (obviously).

Thank you Belias,

It would be a nice workaround if the requirement was as follows:

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But what I exactly want is a 90 degrees orientation that can be done in Excel. The example is attached.

Belias

:shock:
in that case, i cannot say anything else than: "good luck"
honestly, i don't think it's possible...
what do you have to print? is it dynamically (depending on the data) or is it e.g. the company name?
in the latter case, you can buy preprinted sheets.

matttrax

Yeah, you have to do this with images or something.

I think the most important question is "Why is this a requirement?" and not a "nice-to-have".

Cem_Karaer

Your replies are okay. In fact it was not such a strict requirement so customer was persuaded rather than toiling on the job. I wanted to be sure that there is not simple solution to the problem. Thanks.