Changing Text Orientation in Fan Chart

[Barry Tonge]

I presently use Reunion 13. As a long-time Reunion user I frequently use Fan Chart to organize and present my research. I wonder if anyone has solved my key frustration with the the Fan Chart 360 degree presentation view - having to read cell information upside down for a number of cells associated with the bottom-half of the chart.

I have gone through the manual, on-line resources and searched topics on this board with out success in trying to determine if one can flip the text orientation in select cells in Fan Charts from what reads as upside down text to right side-up. If this feature does not exist within Reunion editing (which would seem to be a miss) I suppose using a third party graphics editing software could manage a fix externally and then do a paste over? Would appreciate hearing from anyone who has figured this one out. Thank you.

[B Jansen]

Depends on the OS, try it using Catalina or earlier

[A Ginn]

I think it would be better upgrading to Reunion 14 rather than acquiring another application for graphics editing. 14 can run on the same setup you have for 13, and among its many new features it adds the ability to rotate images and shapes in charts. In a 14 fan chart the cell's caption still cannot be rotated, but you can replace that caption with a text box of your own that can be formatted and rotated as you wish.

Add a text box. You can't copy the cell's information over to it in one step, as the name and date components are in separate fields, so it is probably faster to just type the caption. Before you arrange the text box on the chart, edit out the cell's original caption. Delete the text in all four name/date fields but remember to leave a space character in any one of them, otherwise you lose the cell (but not its ancestry). Position the text box and rotate it to whatever orientation you desire.

Sorry, one correction: 14 has a higher system version requirement than 13, so updating may not always be possible.