Rotated texts

[Andreasox]

Is it possible to create a text with any rotation angle? insert_text only accepts values 90, 180,270. We need to rotate texts 45 degrees.

[JorjMcKie]

Method insert_textbox supports the morph=(point, matrix) parameter.
If you do page.insert_textbox(rect, text, morph=(rect.bl, fitz.Matrix(45)), ...), the text will be rotated by 45° around the bottom-left point of the rectangle.

[JorjMcKie]

page.insert_text() also has that morph parameter.
Please not that the point in morph=(point, matrix) can be anywhere on the page, and the matrix need not be a rotation but could be any matrix with matrix.e = matrix.f = 0. In this way, one can achieve up-down / left / right text flipping and much more.
The point serves as a fix-point here.

[JorjMcKie]

Other interesting effects are selective stretching / shrinking of the text. For example, using the matrix Matrix(2, 0.5) stretches by factor 2 in horizontal, and by factor 0.5 in vertical direction.
Look at these eamples.

[Andreasox]

Thanks a lot. This works for our use case.
I assume that matrix do not respect kerning rules, i.e. stretch is purely math calculation.

[JorjMcKie]

Yes, of course.