The problem is not the "rotation", but the "rendering". By "text", I assume you mean the data type LabVIEW calls "Strings", which are represented (internally) as an array of U8 (or possibly U16 in some cases) to correspond to (typically) the ANSI encoding (also called ASCII) of numerals, punctuation, upper and lower case letters, and a small subset of other symbols (±, µ, °, ²) and accented letters. PCs (and Macs) are designed to render this data type in horizontal forms -- to do more complex type layout generally requires special purpose software that can take the form of the character and transform it to flow other than horizontal.
LabVIEW doesn't do that. It is an "Engineering Workbench", not a text processor.
Having said that, you could (probably) create an image of your text string, rotate the image, and get LabVIEW to display your image. Another thing to do would be to let some other program process your strings and return an image to you, and you could use, for example, the Report Generation Toolkit to generate a Report with the Image on top and the rest of the Report below. Since your example looks like a SpreadSheet, I'd suggest creating an Excel Workbook, where the WorkSheet imports a Picture. [Hmm, maybe Excel is clever enough to take your Array of Strings and make slanted column labels -- seems to me that this might be possible with its columnar bar graphs, which I think I've seen the mother of our children produce ...].
Bob Schor
