>>http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms965281.aspx
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>That article was written when VFP 9 was first released. Now with SP2, VFP has rotation right in the native development tool, which is much easier to implement than what I did back then. You can still do it the hard way .. but you don't have to any more! If only MSFT would have listened to me way back when and put rotation in the first release, I wouldn't have had to write about the hard way!! ;-)

I do totally agree.
I really never had the courage to use listeners for rotation. Instead, I created a UDF that created an image of the rotated string using GDI+. In the report, instead of using "textboxes", I used an Image/Ole, pointing to the Temporary image. This worked using VFP7.