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Select the Vertical checkbox in the Type palette, and then click
Apply to apply the current settings. Canvas applies the vertical
option to the selected text objects, or to the Text tool.
When you set the Text tool to create vertical text, lines of text that
you type are vertical, with text flowing from top to bottom and lines
running from right to left. This is the same as the orientation of text
within an existing text object when you apply the Vertical option.
You can also create text objects with the same vertical text orienta-
tion using the Vertical Text tool.
To change text orientation to horizontal in an object: Select
a text object containing vertical text. In the Type palette, deselect the
Vertical checkbox, and then click Apply.
Using vertical text in publication layouts
To make it easy to create text layouts in Publication documents,
choose Layout > Column Guides and create the number of columns
you want to use. Then, use the Vertical Text Object tool to click
between column guides. This creates a text column sized to fit the
column guides. The column extends from the point you click to the
left margin of the page. If the column guides are outside the printable
area, the column text remains inside the printable area. For more
information, see Vertical Text Object tool on page 15.235.
Vertical Text tool
The Vertical Text tool lets you type text in vertical columns that flow
from top to bottom and right to left. This makes it easy to create ver-
tical columns of text in languages that use vertical text, or when you
work on a publication in which text runs across a page.
When you type with the Vertical Text tool, the text characters flow
from top to bottom on screen; this looks the same as text created with
the Text tool and then rotated 90 degrees clockwise.
To create empty text objects, such as for a document template, to
contain vertical text, you can use the Vertical Text Object tool; see
Vertical Text Object tool on page 15.235.
To define a column for vertical text
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Select the Vertical Text tool in the toolbox. The pointer
changes to a horizontal I-beam. The horizontal I-beam indicates
that text will flow from top to bottom.
Vertical Text tool
Tip
If the Vertical Text tool isnt
available because the two-byte
text preference isnt selected,
you can get the same effect by
rotating text 90 degrees with
the Rotate command in the
Effects menu.