At 16:47 18/06/2014 +0930, Tony Gallas wrote:
On 18/06/2014 3:34 PM, Brian Barker wrote:
At 11:24 18/06/2014 +0800, Hung Mark wrote:
I'm making a name label which I will finally cut the paper into
pieces and fold each piece of it in the middle into a reverse V
shape. I want to create text with fields, which one use normal
text and the other rotates 180 degree.
[...]
Paragraph style does have options for 0, 90, 270, but 180 degree is missing.
I'm guessing here, but I suspect you can do what you need using two
paragraph styles - or, probably more easily, two character styles
(or just different character formatting) - using 90-degree rotation
for one part of each label and 270-degree rotation for the other.
You could do that in frames or, possibly more easily, in table
cells. It may help to rethink your page orientation as landscape
instead of portrait or vice versa.
It is much easier to do in DRAW. You can create a text box, enter
the text then find the "effects" button at the bottom of the screen.
One of the options will be "rotate", click that and when you put
your cursor at the corner of the box you will be able to rotate it
to whatever angle you wish. Then it is an easy matter to create
another box and put it at 180 degrees.
But the questioner wants to populate the labels using fields. Can you
get database fields into a Draw text box - even when pasted into a
text (Writer) document? I can't.
Brian Barker
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