>>>>Are there any tools out there, besides Crystal, which allows rotated text fields (not labels), which allows free-form flowing of the text in the field?
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>>>VFP 9 with report listeners -- there is an example of rotating the column headers. I think there was also a FoxTalk article on this as well (came out when VFP 9 was in beta I believe).
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>>Actually, see Re: Rotating text Thread #1209887 Message #1210011
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>I took a look at the thread.
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>But, I didn't get this from the info there. Can you rotate a BLOCK of text (a memo field), so that it prints from left to right, but each line of text is vertical, with the beginning of each line at the bottom of the block, going up vertically to the top of the block, where the end of that line is at. And the text will free-flow into the field? (So, when you rotate the paper/label 90 degrees, you can read the text.)
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>Think of a normal field with memo text in it, just the whole thing rotated 90 degrees on the paper.
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>Not like just labels, which I think the mentioned references talk about.
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>Thanks a bunch!

That would be probably more complex to achieve, but you may play with mlines(), etc. functions.

I haven't tried this code myself and haven't yet came to this requerement for my own programs, so I didn't experiment.