[Gambas-user] Printing text vertically (using printing or gb.report)

[Fabien Bodard]

2014/1/16 Willy Raets <willy at ...2734...>:
> On Thu, 2014-01-16 at 11:30 +0100, Rolf-Werner Eilert wrote:
>>
>> Am 16.01.2014 10:55, schrieb Willy Raets:
>> > On Thu, 2014-01-16 at 10:44 +0100, Rolf-Werner Eilert wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Am 16.01.2014 10:30, schrieb Willy Raets:
>> >>> On Tue, 2014-01-14 at 10:04 +0100, Willy Raets wrote:
>> >>>> Hi all,
>> >>>>
>> >>>> I have a Dymo Label writer at work and need to print address labels.
>> >>>> Thing is that the labels are in portrait and the text needs to be
>> >>>> printed vertically instead of horizontally as it happens now.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> I have tried with both printing and reports but don't manage to get the
>> >>>> job done. Text aways gets printed horizontal and thus the addresses
>> >>>> don't fit the width or the Dymo Label.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> The size of the Dymo labels that need to be printed is:
>> >>>> PaperWidth = 35.630555
>> >>>> PaperHeight = 88.9
>> >>>> Both sizes are in milimeters (mm).
>> >>>>
>> >>>> I used to do this with reports from MS Access and there you can simply
>> >>>> set the textlabels on the report vertically instead of horizontally.
>> >>>> Didn't find a manner to achieve that with gb.report. Does that exist?
>> >>>>
>> >>>> The project itself is a rebuilt in Gambas of MS Access clients apps
>> >>>> currently used. I can't send the code because:
>> >>>> a. it is too big a project
>> >>>> b. it contains specific inside company information that is not meant for
>> >>>> the public.
>> >>>> I'll try and make a printed pdf of the result later today to show you
>> >>>> what I mean.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
>> >>>>
>> >>>
>> >>> Anyone any suggestion as I really need this to work somehow.
>> >>>
>> >>
>> >> It should be possible to make the page (pdf painting surface) landscape:
>> >
>> > Are you talking gb.cairo component here as you mention a pdf painting
>> > surface as I haven't had a go at that. I was playing with the printer
>> > object and had a go with gb.reports.
>>
>> No, not Cairo, but you can print into pdf with the printer object, too.
>> I admit, that was a bit of a wrong expression. It's what I use it for
>> exclusively: Just printing into a pdf, then using the pdf-loading
>> function to show a preview or simply copying the pdf to the printer.
>> Fast, easy...
>
> That is not what I want end users to do, they need to print directly to
> the DymoLabel Writer without even a preview.
> Having them first make a pdf and reset orientation is way too much for
> them (some of them are really no computer experts whatsoever) and things
> need to be kept simple for them :(
>
> I added some screenshots of how it is implemented at the moment in MS
> Access. As you can see the report designer of MS Access allows for
> labels to be placed vertically on the design (there is a property named
> vertical for textlabels that can be set to yes, it is as simple as
> that).
>
> The second screenshot is a print preview and that is the result I would
> need. As you can see the layout of the Dymo Address Label is portrait,
> the text is printed vertical on the Address Label.
>
> As I am porting this application to Gambas, I need to figure out how
> this can be done in Gambas, as the Dymo Label Writer doesn't have any
> other options to print this.
>
> gb.report doesn't seem to have this possibility and neither does using
> the printer object. Or maybe they can but I haven't discovered it yet.
>
>>
>> >
>> >>
>> >> myPrinter.Orientation = Printer.Landscape
>> >>
>> >
>> > This suggestion sets me to think. The Dymo labels are in portrait in the
>> > Dymo label printer. So making a landscape label on a pdf surface and
>> > next print this in landscape (so actually giving the landscape design a
>> > twist to being printed in portrait) could do the job. I'am going to give
>> > this a try as soon as I am at work.
>>
>> Yes, sometimes things can be tricky :-)
>
> I do think I will try with gb.cairo to see what I can come up with, just
> curious if that would work. But having this option in gb.report would of
> course be much easier :)

it is in the code of report but it seem i have a bug with path
extents. and the editor don't show the rotation.

i will correct that.


> Thanks for the suggestions.
>
>
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>
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Fabien Bodard