User Guide

Chapter 6: Text And Typography
The Vertical Text tool appears in the Toolbox.
The Vertical Text Object tool appears in the Toolbox.
“Vertical” options appear in the Column Guides dialog box and the Type palette.
The Inline tab appears in the Configuration Center.
Using Vertical Text tool
The Vertical Text tool types text in vertical columns that flow from top to bottom and right to left.
Create vertical columns of text in languages that use vertical text, or when you work on a publication
in which text runs across a page.
To create empty text objects, such as for a document template, to contain vertical text, use the
Vertical Text Object tool (see "Using Vertical Text Object tool" on page 566).
If the Vertical Text tool isn’t available because the two-byte text preference isn’t selected,
you can get the same effect by rotating text 90° by choosing Effects | Rotate.
To type vertical text directly:
1.
Select the Vertical Text tool.
The pointer changes to a horizontal I-beam.
2. Click in the document to place the text insertion point, and then begin typing. Since the text
will flow from top to bottom, Canvas expands the bottom of the column to fit the longest line
you type.
3. Press Esc to exit text edit mode.
To define a column for vertical text:
1. Select the Vertical Text tool. The pointer changes to a horizontal I-beam, indicating that text
will flow from top to bottom.
2. Drag the I-beam to set the size of the column, and then begin typing. As you type, text
characters run from top to bottom. When the text reaches the bottom edge of the column, it
wraps back to the top and onto the next line to the left.
3. Press Esc to exit text edit mode.
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