printing rotated text

2011-12-02 Thread Ben Rubinstein
Can I just confirm that there's no way to print high-quality rotated text from LC? For use on screen one can put text in a field, take a snapshot, and rotate that - which is fine if you don't need editing; but of course in print that comes out lo-res. Is there any way, if I want most of the

Re: printing rotated text

2011-12-02 Thread Mike Bonner
It might be possible to use css/javascript in a revbrowser instance to accomplish this, but I haven't actually done so, so not sure. On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 8:38 AM, Ben Rubinstein benr...@cogapp.com wrote: Can I just confirm that there's no way to print high-quality rotated text from LC? For

RE: printing rotated text

2011-12-02 Thread FlexibleLearning
Up to 4.6.2, you get increased image resolution if you import an image and scale it down, but not if you take a snapshot and scale it down. I did bug-report this anomoly ages ago. Maybe they fixed increased res on snapshots in 5.0 (not tried yet). Hugh Senior FLCo Ben Rubinstein wrote Can I

Re: printing rotated text

2011-12-02 Thread dfepstein
Ben Rubenstein asked   Can I just confirm that there's no way to print high-quality rotated text from LC?   Create the field with fontsize 4 times what your want, take a snapshot, rotate, paste, and reduce the image's width and length to 25% of the original . David

Re: printing rotated text

2011-12-02 Thread Joe Lewis Wilkins
Late to visit this thread, but when I need to do something of this nature I do it in MacDraft, Export it as a JPG or?... at whatever resolution I want; and then import or paste that into an LC image. Then it's up to the printer. Usually the quality is quite good. If you are interested in this

Re: printing rotated text

2011-12-02 Thread FlexibleLearning
Unless you know different, this doesn't work. The snapshot option remains at 72dpi after scaling. The only way seems to be scaling an import an image from an external image file. Hugh Senior FLCo David Epstein wrote: Create the field with fontsize 4 times what your want, take a snapshot,

Re: printing rotated text

2011-12-02 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On 02/12/2011 15:59, dfepst...@comcast.net wrote: Create the field with fontsize 4 times what your want, take a snapshot, rotate, paste, and reduce the image's width and length to 25% of the original . Yep, that's exactly what I'm doing (not the paste bit, ie the code puts text into a field,

Re: printing rotated text

2011-12-02 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On 02/12/2011 18:14, FlexibleLearning wrote: Unless you know different, this doesn't work. The snapshot option remains at 72dpi after scaling. The only way seems to be scaling an import an image from an external image file. Hugh Senior FLCo David Epstein wrote: Create the field with fontsize

Re: printing rotated text

2011-12-02 Thread Roger Eller
On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 1:35 PM, Ben Rubinstein wrote: So if there was a way to do it right - ie a 'printRotated' property that could be set and reset multiple times within a single print job - that would be nicer. Ben I would rather have rotation angle as a property of a text field. This

Re: printing rotated text

2011-12-02 Thread Ben Rubinstein
On 02/12/2011 18:58, Roger Eller wrote: So if there was a way to do it right - ie a 'printRotated' property that could be set and reset multiple times within a single print job - that would be nicer. I would rather have rotation angle as a property of a text field. This has been requested