Can a text box be rotated?

According to the documentation for both Acrobat and LiveCycle Designer, text field rotations are only 90, 180, and 270 degrees. LiveCycel Designer is the only product that can programmatically rotate fields.

Thanks for the info! I didn't think that you could go beyond the three degree choices given, but it never hurts to ask.

DB

I think I have found a way to rotate text boxes to any angle in LiveCycle Designer 7. I'm making a form using Adobe Acrobat Pro, and editing the form in Designer. If you go to View and click XML source, it shows you the underlying XML source code for the form you are editing. Look at the code for one of your elements (I recommend trying this in a page w/ just one element, in order to figure out how it works). Then go back to the Body Pages tab (or click View/Body Pages). In the Layout menu, click the button to rotate the element 90 degrees. Now go back to your XML code (View/XML source), and Find the text "rotate". It should look something like this:

You see rotate at the end there...you can change the "90" to any angle you want. This is kind of a patchwork way to rotate text, and I can't really explain it exactly because I do not know XML, but it works. If you rotate a text box this way, it seems like the text might look a little distorted. But I haven't played with it much, maybe there's a way to fix that (trying different fonts, etc.).