Hey folks,
I was wondering if there is a way to create text that reads 'up and down'. In otherwords, I need to position text that is 'vertical' instead of the normal 'horizontal' position. But ... the letters still need to read like they do in the horizontal position (instead of one letter being positioned 1 ontop of the other).
Any ideas?
thanks-
inkscape-user-admin@lists.sourceforge.net wrote on 26/10/2005 10:43:53 AM:
I was wondering if there is a way to create text that reads 'up and down'. In otherwords, I need to position text that is 'vertical' instead of the normal 'horizontal' position. But ... the letters still need to read like they do in the horizontal position (instead of one letter being positioned 1 ontop of the other).
How about:
Enter a single letter on each line of the input dialogue, then fiddle with the line spacing until it looks nice.
With 14pt Arial, Centre-justified, a line spacing of around 90% looked good to me. (see attached)
-Kingsley
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Sorry for the offtopic but you sure aren't joking! Does your boss have pointy hair?
I'm amazed your employers are not embarassed by this sort of thing. Do they include it on every fax and on the company letterhead? Do they make you read it out everytime you answer the phone?
When will the madness ever end?
It is funny in a tragi-comic kind of way.
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Alan Horkan wrote:
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Sorry for the offtopic but you sure aren't joking! Does your boss have pointy hair?
I'm amazed your employers are not embarassed by this sort of thing. Do they include it on every fax and on the company letterhead? Do they make you read it out everytime you answer the phone?
When will the madness ever end?
It is funny in a tragi-comic kind of way.
It may be different in Ireland, but at least in the US the trend is to cover your ass even if it doesn't make any sense. For instance, when posting to a public mailing list. Or, the fact that the writer and the addressee both have rights to the content in correspondence no mater if it was the correct address or not.
I'm not entirely sure of the whole history, but I think it started with fax cover sheets from doctor's offices. They included a little message on the top basically saying "If this isn't for you, please don't read it, it is someone's confidential information." This was to try and help in the situation of the shared office fax, so that other people in the office wouldn't find out about your medical issues. Then the lawyers came up with rather mean sounding statements, claiming you _could_ be violating some law (which I've never seen) by them misaddressing the content. Now it's moved on to e-mail. Not more legally defensible, just hating people with limited mailbox sizes or limited bandwidth connections.
I wish it would stop, but that seems unlikely. Corporate culture in the US at least is in risk avoidance mode.
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That is droll.
malcolm
Hi Alan,
On 10/26/05, Alan Horkan <horkana@...3...> wrote:
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.............................................X When will the madness ever end?
It is funny in a tragi-comic kind of way.
I worked with the local practice of Ernst & Young (one of the big-4 consulting firms in the world) for 15 months and this was the standard practice over there. In fact, I have observed this practice in almost all multi-national organizations. Albeit, advertising one's organization in addition to these disclaimers should be a no-no.
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Asif
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On Fri, 28 Oct 2005, Asif Lodhi wrote:
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 13:57:52 -0700 From: Asif Lodhi <asif.lodhi@...155...> Reply-To: inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net To: inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: Embarassing Disclaimers [was Re: [Inkscape-user] text tool]
Hi Alan,
On 10/26/05, Alan Horkan <horkana@...3...> wrote:
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.............................................X When will the madness ever end?
It is funny in a tragi-comic kind of way.
I worked with the local practice of Ernst & Young (one of the big-4
I'm familiar with these kinds of disclaimers but this was an example of a particularly long and uninformative disclaimer and I wanted to share my sympathies.
- Alan
On 10/26/05, Patrick Roane wrote:
Hey folks,
I was wondering if there is a way to create text that reads 'up and down'. In otherwords, I need to position text that is 'vertical' instead of the normal 'horizontal' position. But ... the letters still need to read like they do in the horizontal position (instead of one letter being positioned 1 ontop of the other).
Just rotate the text frame :) You might like to hold Ctrl pressed to enable angle snapping (15 grad. each step).
Alexandre
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