Re: Is there a keyword to get a word to print at a 45 degree angle ? -- RPG400-L

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Hello James,

Am 18.06.2021 um 17:52 schrieb James H. H. Lampert via RPG400-L <rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

It should be fairly simple to put a block of one or more oblique column headings (or any other oblique fixed text) into a page segment, although it seems to me that a bitmap editor, e.g., GIMP, would be a more appropriate tool for that job.

In general I agree. But instead of creating a pixel based picture, I'd opt to go for vector graphics. Since AFP is all about APA and pre-rastering stuff for printers to process content as fast as possible, I'm not sure if this is possible at all. Lacking skill, yet.
In any case, if there is some pre-rasterized content to be embedded it should match the target printer's resolution for best quality. How much resolution should go into a PDF might be debatable. ;-)

As to sending out reports as Excel spreadsheets, I'd have the same objection to that as I would to sending them out as Numbers spreadsheets: it's a proprietary format.

With content being XML, this argument has weakened somehow.

:wq! PoC

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