PhilterPaper
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3 years ago Phil Perry replied:
I think textlabel is set up strictly for left-to-right text, and the whole thing can be rotated at some angle. To get vertical text with unrotated characters and proper punctuation will be very difficult. Have you tried HarfBuzz::Shaper support in PDF::Builder? The example for it shows some Chinese text in vertical mode -- no punctuation there, but you should try it anyway to see if it does the job for you. That might be a lot easier than trying to bend textlabel() to handle this.
Kurt steuber wrote:
Dear Phil,
In the textlabel command
($width = $txt->textlabel($x,$y, $font, $size, $text, %opts)I find an option-rotate => $degWith this I could rotate my text by 90 degrees. But I would like to format a Japanese text the normal way, this means all characters remain upright but in a perpendicular row (which is normal in Japan :-) ) Placing the characters by single character strings below each other does not work either, since at least the interpunctation marks (brackets, full stop, quotes etc) have to be different in a perpendicular line. For instance brackets are indeed rotated by 90 degrees, full stops are placed in the upper right corner instead etc. I attach an image of a text sample where you can see that the comma is not correctly placed.Greetings Kurt