6.1 Graphical Transformations

The graphicx package also provides commands to rotate, resize, reflect and scale text. They are as follows:

\rotatebox[<option list>]{<angle>}{<text>}

Rotates <text> by <angle> (degrees anti-clockwise by default). The optional argument <option list> is a comma-separated list of any of the following options:

units=<number>
The number of units in one full anti-clockwise rotation. So units=-360 means that <angle> specifies degrees clockwise whereas units=6.283185 means that <angle> is in radians.
origin=<label>
The point of rotation. The value <label> may contain one from either or both of the two lists: lrc (left, right, centre) and tbB (top, bottom, baseline). Alternatively the origin may be specified using the following two keys:
x=<dimen>
y=<dimen>

Example:

base line \rotatebox{45}{Some text} \rotatebox[units=-360]{45}{Some text} \rotatebox[units=-360,origin=rB]{45}{Some text} \rotatebox[x=3em,y=3em]{45}{Some text} base line

Image of typeset output: each occurrence of 'Some text' has been rotated

\scalebox{<h scale>}[<v scale>]{<text>}

Scales <text> by <h scale> in both directions if <v scale> omitted, otherwise scales <text> by <h scale> horizontally and <y scale> vertically.

Example:

\scalebox{0.8}{Some text}