How to write horizontally in SSRS (rotate text)
I found an interesting article on how to do this. It also works outside tables.
http://www.sqljason.com/2011/01/rotate-text-in-ssrs.html
I needed to rotate the text with a custom color such as #0b4373 so I modified a few lines
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Function LoadImage(ByVal sImageText As String, ByVal sImageTextMax As String, ByVal color As String) ' For versions prior to R2 add reference System.Drawing sImageTextMax = sImageTextMax.PadRight(40) Dim iFontSize As Integer = 9 '//Change this as needed Dim bmpImage As New Drawing.Bitmap(1, 1) Dim iWidth As Integer = 0 Dim iHeight As Integer = 0 '// Create the Font object for the image text drawing. Dim MyFont As New Drawing.Font("Garamond", iFontSize, System.Drawing.FontStyle.Bold, System.Drawing.GraphicsUnit.Point) '// Create a graphics object to measure the text's width and height.'Graphics(MyGraphics = Graphics.FromImage(bmpImage)) Dim MyGraphics As Drawing.Graphics = Drawing.Graphics.FromImage(bmpImage) '// This is where the bitmap size is determined. iWidth = MyGraphics.MeasureString(sImageTextMax, MyFont).Width iHeight = MyGraphics.MeasureString(sImageTextMax, MyFont).Height '// Create the bmpImage again with the correct size for the text and font. 'bmpImage = New Drawing.Bitmap(bmpImage, New Drawing.Size(iWidth, iHeight)) bmpImage = New Drawing.Bitmap(bmpImage, New Drawing.Size(iHeight, iWidth)) '// Add the colors to the new bitmap. MyGraphics = Drawing.Graphics.FromImage(bmpImage) MyGraphics.Clear(Drawing.ColorTranslator.FromHtml(color)) MyGraphics.TextRenderingHint = Drawing.Text.TextRenderingHint.AntiAlias MyGraphics.TranslateTransform(0, iWidth) MyGraphics.RotateTransform(270) MyGraphics.DrawString(sImageText, MyFont, New Drawing.SolidBrush(Drawing.Color.White), 0, 0) MyGraphics.Flush() Dim stream As IO.MemoryStream = New IO.MemoryStream Dim bitmapBytes As Byte() 'Create bitmap bmpImage.Save(stream, System.Drawing.Imaging.ImageFormat.Jpeg) bitmapBytes = stream.ToArray stream.Close() bmpImage.Dispose() Return bitmapBytes End Function