Hi Willie,

My Report Engine will rotate the text to any angle that you need and when it rotates the text in both my Report Preview, Printed Output or a PDF Document it does so by actually rotating the Font and painting the font at the rotated angle. Therefore, the same font smoothing is done as normal text and so there aren't any jagged bitmaps. You can't see the rotated text in the Report Designer yet until I get my Report Designer Tool completed. But, if you run the DemoIt() Method of my Mind's Eye Report Engine you will see the rotated Text. Also, my PDF Output engine is about 5 to 10 times faster in speed than the Adobe PDF Writer once the report has been loaded into my control.

You can download a demo at: http://www.mindseyeinc.com/ReportEngine/MindsEyeReportEngineSetup.exe

Also, I have a very simple Method as well as a Toolbar Button to Email reports automatically and it now supports both SMTP and MAPI Email. Just set the EmailMessagingType Property to 0=SMTP or 1=MAPI. This makes emailing a Report a breeze. Plus you can add pages to a Report at Runtime and then add Charts and more as well as supporting appending multiple VFP Reports into a Single Report that even have different Orientations or Paper Sizes.

If you have any more questions or need some help figuring out how to do something you can email me directly.

Rich


> We need to produce a PDF document at the end of the day. As far as I can see no PDF
> utilities makes provision for this functionality. We have tried doing it on an image
> but the quality is not the same.