Writing upside down

[Marky Lazer]

I'm thinking about a project where I need some pages normal and some upside-down. Does anyone of that is possible in Microsoft Word, and if so, how to do it? And, if not, any program that CAN do it?

Cheers!

[cornelius]

Illustrator or photoshop? Just make a text field and turn it upside down with Ctrl T and a few clicks...

[Marky Lazer]

Doesn't that make the font dodgier to read?

I'm thinking about turning two books into one. So halfway the book, the first ends. If you then close the book. And put it upside-down, and start again at the first page, you'll read the next story. I also want two front covers... See what I'm aiming for?

[cornelius]

yep, could be done with photoshop- if you do it in the proper way, that is- Try it, you'll see
we did it at school, worked as a charm

hope it works

[dwndrgn]

Most word processors will do this, in Microsoft Word all you have to do is use a text box and change the orientation of the text.

Actually, regular publishers do it all the time and all they do is print two books and bind them together, one upside down and one not...

[terryweide]

I think you will need a either a scanner attached to your computer or a desktop publishing program loaded on it.

You can write your file in Word, then under "File" click "Save As." If you have a scanner attached to your computer, and you have an option for "My Pictures" under "Save As", save your file under My Pictures. This should save the text file to the scanning program. In the scanning program, you should have a command that says "Rotate Image." This allows you to rotate an image or a page 90 degrees at time. You would simply keep rotating your text image until it was upside down.

As for Word itself, after playing around with it for a few minutes and reading the various toolbars commands, I don't see a way to make it write a text upside down, but perhaps others on this board will know a way to do it.

Good luck, Terry

[terryweide]

If all you need is a text box, where is the textbox located?

Terry

[cornelius]

Or just print it out, and turn the pages when you put them together

[Marky Lazer]

Originally Posted by terryweide

If all you need is a text box, where is the textbox located?

Terry

Insert -> Text Box


But, I still can't make it upside down

When I open the Drawing Toolbar, select the text box and try to rotate it (in the drawing toolbar) it won't let me...

Edit: I find something called "Text Direction" but can only change it into sideways...

[Culhwch]

Originally Posted by cornelius

Or just print it out, and turn the pages when you put them together

Makes sense to me.....

[Marky Lazer]

That's not an option, because I need to send the document digital instead of hard copy.

[Culhwch]

Are you sending it to a publisher? Because perhaps you could just explain the concept in a covering letter, and let them handle the logistics (which I think they'd prefer anyway).

If it's just one book followed by another book, I'd be more in favour of calling them Book One and Book Two, and leaving them like that, right way up and all. I can't see how the flip adds anything, but then I'm something of a traditionalist, so....

[Marky Lazer]

I just like a gimmick and kind of like the idea...

[cornelius]

Well, could the publisher have some ideas?
maybe he had some similar request.

[kyektulu]

I dont understand why do this?

It would make it very difficult for the publisher.... and if its meant for the reader too, I know it would just annoy me and I would give up reading it.