tool to rotate text

[Mathew]

It doesn't happen often, but sometimes I need to rotate just the text in text boxes. Usually it's after I've pasted from one drawing to another. It's easy with the right click menu to rotate everything, including the box. Sometimes I just want to rotate the text, so this script helps.

I just paste this into the console, and run it to create a temporary toolbar button. You could save it into the Javascripts folder if using often:

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// rotate text counterclockwise
app.addToolButton( {
	cName: "rotateTextTool",
	cLabel: "Rotate Text",
	cTooltext: "Rotate just the text CCW",
	cEnable: "event.rc = (this.selectedAnnots && this.selectedAnnots.length)",
	cExec: "for (let a of this.selectedAnnots) a.rotate += 90" }
);

If rotating clockwise makes more sense to you, change line 7 to subtract 90 degrees:

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	cExec: "for (let a of this.selectedAnnots) a.rotate -= 90" }

[Daniel - PDF-XChange]