iText & VerticalText

[AllyBongo]

Vertical Text in PDF using <CFDOCUMENT>

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I am using font tag in a CSS file to layout a table header using vertical text.
In HTML, the vertical text looks fine. However, when I convert the table to a
pdf using <cfdocument>, the vertical text is displayed as horizintal text and
does not follow the css specified font family, color or size.

I'm trying to use the iTEXT class VerticalText to create the text, but i'm having trouble understanding how to call the method.

I have created the object using myObj.vertText = createObject("java","com.lowagie.text.pdf.VerticalText");

Does anyone have ideas on how to use iText and call its functions?

Thanks.

[insuractive]

This seems like a thread for Adobe's PaulH. Hopefully, he jumps on with some useful code. In the meantime, how comfortable are you with converting Java logic to CF? the iText site has the following code example for creating vertical text:

[AllyBongo]

To be honest i'm not too hot at this side of CF programming. I've only just started using object orientated code (i know, we're a bit behind the times in my workplace!!)

Can you give me a bit of a start as to how how I would convert this stuff? Is it best to use CFCs?

Thanks again for your help, Ally

[cf_dev2]

> I am using font tag in a CSS file to layout a table header using vertical text.
Cfdocument is supposed to support CSS2, but is vertical text part of the CSS2 spec? I thought it was CSS3.

[cf_dev2]

AllyBongo,

Are you going to convert the whole thing to iText? Just wondering if its worth it for just vertical text.

[AllyBongo]

Hey, Its probably not worth it but I don't really know how else to go about it.

MY users have a form matrix which they enter text into fields and mark checkboxes against items. Some of the items are displayed vertically so it all fits on to one page and then they produce a PDF from it ..... probably doesn't explain it very well actually!!

Do you know how else I could get round this?

[cf_dev2]

A matrix is one case where it might be worth converting to iText.

There's the old html <br> hack to create vertical text. You manualy (or with cfloop) put a <br> after each letter. Its super kludgey but it sorta' gets the job done

...
V<br>
E<br>
R<br>
T<br>
I<br>
C<br>
A<br>
L<br>
...

[AllyBongo]

Any advice on how to do it with a cfloop?

[cf_dev2 · Accepted solution]

Just use cfloop and mid()

[AllyBongo]

Great Thanks, works a treat!!