I have a Shapefile of cartographic text (roads, buildings, water etc) and I would like to be able to rotate individual road names to fit within the width of the road. Anyway, I know it is possible to rotate a feature in QGIS using the Advanced Digitizing Toolbar (Is there a Rotate Tool in QGIS?), however when I use this feature it doesnt seem to rotate at all (St Nicholas Avenue, below).
What am I doing wrong?