Can't seem to rotate text

[durango]

      vectorDoc
        .rotate(90, {origin: [650, 45]})
        .fillColor(is_express ? 'red' : 'black')
        .font('OpenSans-Light')
        .fontSize(12)
        .text('hello', 650, 53)

Seems to make my script fail, I've even tried setting rotation to 89.9, tried this as well:

      vectorDoc
        .save()
        .rotate(90, {origin: [650, 45]})
        .fillColor(is_express ? 'red' : 'black')
        .font('OpenSans-Light')
        .fontSize(12)
        .text('hello', 650, 53)
        .restore()

I've tried removing the font/fontSize options but nothing seems to work. Using the latest npm version with pdftk 2.01 a Handy Tool for Manipulating PDF Documents

[LukyVj]

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[LukyVj]

So, after some researches, I decided to open this StackOverflow question, and @olance gave me a really helpful answer, that lead me to fix my issue, so if you want to rotate text, you may want to read it.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/41469801/is-there-any-trick-to-rotate-text-in-pdfkit

[durango]

This is essentially what I ended up doing, completely forgot about this issue though, thanks for updating me and this issue. Hopefully it'll help others in the future 👍

[ArturPrzybysz]

The best way to write rotated text is to rotate pdf around certain point, then write it normally and rotate the pdf document back.
Code example:

doc.rotate(angle, { origin: [x,y] };
doc.text( 'TEST', x, y);
doc.rotate(angle * (-1), { origin: [x,y] };

This way you don't need to calculate new position.

[bugamehmet]

This code maybe useful.

doc
.save() // Save the current state of the document
.translate(startX + 10, startY + 145) // Set the starting point
.rotate(-90, { origin: [0, 0] }) // Rotate the text at a specific angle
.font('Roboto-Bold.ttf')
.fontSize('12')
.text('DEDUCTIONS AND PENALTIES', 0, 0)
.restore(); // Restore the document to its previous state

https://github.com/bugamehmet/PDFkit-text-rotate