Rotate a single line of text in PDF with DrawString

[Luca Cavicchioli]

Hello, I need to rotate a single line of text, of a specified angle, while I'm composing a PDF document, by reading fields from a database.

A code snippet that explains what I want to achieve is something like this:

// Rows contains a collection of objects that represents all the element of the final PDF file

foreach (var row in rows)

{

    // Considering only the string objects (the only with a rotation angle)

    if(row.Type == "S")

        DrawString(row.X, row.Y, row.Text, row.RotationAngle, [...]);

    else if(row.Type == "P")

        [...Do other stuff...]    

}

// For simplicity, all the stuff for create font and format are omitted

private void DrawString(float posX, float posY, string text, int rotationAngle, [...])

{

     var font = new PdfTrueTypeFont([...]);

     var format = new PdfStringFormat { Alignment = PdfTextAlignment.Left, WordWrap = PdfWordWrapType.Word };

    _page.Graphics.DrawString(text, font, PdfBrushes.Black, new PointF(X, Y), format);

// And what about the rotation angle???

// If 90 is passed as RotationAngle I'like to have ONLY this string rotated by 90 degrees.

}

For completeness, if I have these data:

X = 10, Y = 10, Text = "Straight", RotationAngle = 0

X = 20, Y = 10, Text = "Rotated", RotationAngle = 90

X = 30, Y = 10, Text = "Already Straight", TotationAngle = 0

I would like to have a PDF that looks like the picture attached

Attachment: Sample_e396ddda.zip

[Praveenkumar H]

Hi Luca,

Thank you for using syncfusion products,

We can rotate the text as follow.

 //save the current graphics states
            PdfGraphicsState state = page.Graphics.Save();

            //Translate the coordinate system’s to where you want draw the text position
            page.Graphics.TranslateTransform(position.X,position.Y);
            //Rotate the coordinate system’s
            page.Graphics.RotateTransform(angle);
            //Draw the string at the origin
            page.Graphics.DrawString(text, bigFont, PdfBrushes.DarkBlue, new PointF(0, 0));

            //Restore the graphics state
            page.Graphics.Restore(state);

Wee have attached sample project for your reference.

Please let us know if you need further assistance.

With Regards,

Praveen

Attachment: VerticalText_5cfdca5f.zip