[Scribus] Rotating Characters in a text box

[Peter Dinnan]

In a text box type a letter then press enter; type another letter then
press enter... and so on. (you can resize your text box
afterwards)    ;-)

Regards,
Peter 



On Sat, 2006-11-18 at 22:48 +0100, Axel Bojer wrote:
> Axel Bojer skrev:
> > Russbucket skrev:
> >> I have a vertical test box but I need the characters to be Horizonal within 
> >> the box. Is there a way to rotate the characters without change the location 
> >> of the box. Below is how text box looks. 
> >>
> >>                         ----
> >> 		       | X |
> >> 		       | E |
> >> 		       | R |
> >> 		       | O |
> >> 		       | X |
> >>                         ----
> >>
> >> Any pointers on how to do this. I was able to do it when I used MS Publisher, 
> >> now converting everything to Scribus on Linux.
> >>
> >> Thanks in advance!
> > 
> > My solution to this was (after having written the Text normally, that is 
> > horizontally) to just turn the whole text box around 270.00 degrees. 
> > (choose "Rotation".)
> > Not quite as you asked maybe because you may have to move it a bit 
> > afterwards, but it works fine :-)
> 
> Sorry, misread your answer. I see from your picture, that you want one 
> letter at each line but still have the letters horizontally. I have no 
> other suggestions for this, than to restrict the width of the text box 
> so that only one letter fits in. Of course you then also may have to 
> move the box ...
> 
> Best regards
> Axel Bojer
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