Transformations

Press supports rotating block elements in 90-degree increments. This is primarily useful for fitting wide content (like landscape data tables) into portrait pages.

Rotation

Add the rotation attribute to any block element:

<frame rotation="270">
  <!-- Content rendered in landscape orientation -->
</frame>

Valid Values

Value	Effect
90	Rotate 90 degrees clockwise
180	Rotate 180 degrees (upside down)
270	Rotate 270 degrees clockwise (90 degrees anti-clockwise)

How Rotation Works

Rotation happens in-place around the element's top-left corner.

Important: width and height are pre-rotation dimensions. All other positioning attributes (top, left, right, bottom) are post-rotation.

This means for a landscape table on a portrait page:

<frame rotation="270" width="700pt" height="500pt">
  <table>
    <!-- Wide table content -->
  </table>
</frame>

• width="700pt" is the width before rotation (which becomes the height available for children)
• height="500pt" is the height before rotation (which becomes the width available for children)

Example: Landscape Data Table

A monthly statistics table that's too wide for portrait. Rotate it 270 degrees so it reads naturally when the page is turned:

<press>
  <document format="A4" page-margin="1cm">
    <page>
      <frame rotation="270" width="100%">
        <table font-size="7pt">
          <tr>
            <th>Variable</th>
            <th>Jan</th>
            <th>Feb</th>
            <th>Mar</th>
            <th>Apr</th>
            <th>May</th>
            <th>Jun</th>
            <th>Jul</th>
            <th>Aug</th>
            <th>Sep</th>
            <th>Oct</th>
            <th>Nov</th>
            <th>Dec</th>
          </tr>
          <repeat data="data.rows" item="row">
            <tr>
              <td font-style="bold">{{ row.label }}</td>
              <repeat data="row.values" item="val">
                <td text-align="center">{{ val }}</td>
              </repeat>
            </tr>
          </repeat>
        </table>
        <p font-size="7pt" font-color="#6b7280" space-before-desired="8pt">
          Table 1: Summary of monthly statistics for the reporting period.
        </p>
      </frame>
    </page>
  </document>
</press>

Nesting Rotated Elements

Rotations can be nested -- a rotated frame inside another rotated frame will have their rotations combined.