Composer Manager - Label rotation

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Author Name: Vassilios Grigoriadis (Vassilios Grigoriadis)
Original Redmine Issue: 12696
Affected QGIS version: master
Redmine category:map_composer/printing

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Place a label and try to rotate it counter-clockwise. It is not possible since the rotation angle does not accept negative values. Check now the data definition description where the expected input should be a double [-180.0, 180.0].

The expected input should be in the range of [-180.0, 180.0] and not [0.0, 360.0] or if it is desired to place labels upside-down then you could extend the range to [-360.0, 360.0].

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Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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if you want to show upside down labels you must use the proper option in labelling > rendering, isn't this what you are looking for?

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• category_id was configured as Labelling
• status_id was changed from Open to Feedback

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Author Name: Harrissou Santanna (@DelazJ)

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Hi,
I think it's rather about text added to print composer (such as title, source...) than labelling.
The "Rotation" spinbox doesn't allow to write negative value. You only can write [0.0, 360.0] values.
But "data defined override" option seems to allow any value although its description says that only [-180.0, 180.0] values are allowed.
There is a need of homogenization...

And testing further, it appears that this rotation "incoherence" happens also with any item in the print composer (map, shape, legend...), in brief with all rotation spinbox, except for map rotation where "data defind override" function seems to not work (I'll fill a ticket about).

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Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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• status_id was changed from Feedback to Open
• version was changed from 2.8.1 to master
• category_id was changed from Labelling to Map Composer/Printing

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Author Name: Giovanni Manghi (@gioman)

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• regression was configured as 0
• easy_fix was configured as 0

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Author Name: Nyall Dawson (@nyalldawson)

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Applied in changeset 6f368be.

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• status_id was changed from Open to Closed
• done_ratio was changed from 0 to 100