String rotation

[c4da]

It seems that string rotation is not working for 0.42.

        AffineTransform affineTransform = horizontalFont.getTransform();
        affineTransform.rotate(Math.toRadians(-90), 0, 0);
        Font rotatedFont = horizontalFont.deriveFont(affineTransform);
        gc.setFont(rotatedFont);
        gc.drawString(text, x, y);

Is there some workaround or am I doing something wrong?
I have fonts registered, and I have checked that Im drawing it as a string.
Maybe if I could force it to draw rotated text using shapes?

[rototor]

You can always force drawing text with shape by using the default TextDrawer, or setting it to PdfBoxGraphics2DFontTextDrawer, i.e.

                gfx.setFontTextDrawer(new PdfBoxGraphics2DFontTextDrawer());

But you could instead just use a normal transform on the Graphics2D to rotate the text:

                AffineTransform saveTF = gfx.getTransform();
                AffineTransform at = AffineTransform.getTranslateInstance(100, 150);
                at.rotate(Math.toRadians(-90), 0, 0);
                gfx.setColor(Color.RED);
                gfx.setFont(horizontalFont);
                gfx.setTransform(at);
                gfx.drawString("Some sample text", 0, 0);
                gfx.setTransform(saveTF);

I.e. you do a:

• save the current (transform) state
• move to the place where the text should be drawn
• now rotate
• draw the text
• restore the current (transform) state

But I'll try to look into this. Maybe this can be made work with font files.

[c4da]

Thanks for the answer, I did just what you have suggested, which was rotating the gc -90 deg and back.

I have tried setting PdfBoxGraphics2DFontTextDrawer which also worked, it may be good to access the used FontTextDrawer, sou you could switch them back and forth as you go.

Is there a reason why you havent accesed the get method for used FontTextDrawer? Im just curious.

BTW, I really appreciate that you have answered on sunday!

[rototor]

The gfx has currently no getFontTextDrawer() method, and I'm not sure if this is method is really needed. I got your basic sample working with fonts, I'm just need to debug the case with attributed text, thats not really working yet.

Well on sundays it's more likely that I've time for this project ;-)