Currently, Category Axis Label Rotation will only rotate around the center of the label. When labels are long, they do not align well with the chart (e.g. column chart). See the following forum post for more info: http://www.telerik.com/forums/categoryaxis-label-rotation---align-with-column-chart
Hello,
The category axis labels have automatic rotation now:
Regards,
Alex Hajigeorgieva
Progress Telerik
Unfortunately, the workaround suggested in the forum does not resolve the issue.
Thanks for the proposal. I hope that the workaround suggested in the forum thread you linked is an applicable workaround for you for now.
And to be a bit more clear - please add an option to rotate the label around the head, center, or tail of the label. In my case, I was rotating the label by 300 degrees, so rotating around the tail would make the most sense.