An independent forum site for members of the Serif software community
You are not logged in. Please login or register.
Automated signup has been disabled for these forums. If you wish to register, please send an email to admin[at]punster[dot]me stating your preferred username.
Embedded images: Click on the 
Add image to post link below the message box. Your photo will be uploaded to the postimage website and then shared here via a thumbnail link. Click on the thumbnail for a larger view.
Private messages: There is no pop-up alert for new PMs on these forums, so you need to look out for the PM link (near the top right-hand corner of any forum page) becoming bold.
Alfred's Serif Users' Forums → PagePlus → Vertical words
I am lost, trying to place a vertical word in PPX9.
It’s just ‘THE’ in a newsletter. I can place it a text box and swing it round 90° but that’s not it. And I could place each letter in its own box and align together vertically, still fiddly.
I can’t find ‘line spacing’ anywhere, or vertical words.
Would appreciate some advice thanks.
Two ways:
1. If you are using a text frame, reduce its width so the letters arrange themselves vertically. Make the text centre-aligned. This may not work if the text contains wide characters such as w's, unless you are using a fixed width font like Courier New.
2. When typing the characters add a line break after each one. Shift+Enter adds a line break. This works in both frame and artistic text. Again, use centre-alignment for the text.
You could, of course, use method 1 initially, the use method 2 only where necessary if two letters appear side-by-side.
There is no option for "Vertical Words", but Line Spacing can be done from both the Paragraph and the Character tabs, or in Format/Paragraph dialogue.
Thanks for the input. Unfortunately both methods you have described leave too much space between the vertical characters.
As I’ve only had to do this for the three letters ‘THE’, I’ve found it easier to just create 3 text boxes close together vertically and put a centered letter in each one.
both methods you have described leave too much space between the vertical characters
That can be solved by adjusting the line spacing thus:
For a short word, what you have done may be quickest.
Ah yes - that’s where I should have been.
Thanks for solving that.
Alfred's Serif Users' Forums → PagePlus → Vertical words
Powered by PunBB, supported by Informer Technologies, Inc.