i need text rotation option in pdf creation, is it somehow possible? does any such api exists?
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iText. It's Open Source and you can even buy a quite good book on it written by the author. (And yes, of course it supports rotated text.)
danbystrom
2010-07-24 13:27:35
thanks, thats great, can you please tell me how to do rotation of text and image from itext? thanks in advace
shabby
2010-07-24 14:54:04
Free text: setTextMatrix(), TextField: setRotation(), Images: setRotation() (or setRotationDegrees())
danbystrom
2010-07-24 15:22:32
danbystorm, plz can you give me a working example of text rotation, i'd be really thankful, i figured out image rotation which is quite simple but cant find out the text rotation, thanks
shabby
2010-07-26 20:15:22
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Assuming that you are going to use the library iTextSharp, as suggested in another answer (iText is a Java library; iTextSharp is a .NET port of it), here's some examples. These are essentially stripped-down versions from Bruno Lowagie's book iText in Action from Manning Publications.
(Note that the examples are written in Java, since I took them straight from the book, but you should be able to easily adapt them to the iTextSharp library and C#.)
Image rotation:
This is found in the book on page 155.
Image img = Image.getInstance("foo.jpg");
img.setRotationDegrees(45);
Text rotation:
This is found in the book on page 351-352.
PdfContentByte cb = ...;
cb.showTextAligned(PdfContentByte.ALIGN_LEFT, "Some text", e, f, angle);
where e and f are translation values (the coordinates, essentially), and angle is the rotation angle.
stakx
2010-07-24 19:12:55