I’d like to enter text yet reverse its direction from right to left without it being a mirror image. I’m looking for ways to achieve this effect and can only come up with the ideas below:
1. Is it possible to enter text to a path and reverse the path direction?
2. Is it possible to reverse a text box?
3. Is it possible to reverse a regular text entry line?
Please fire away with any other alternatives I haven’t mentioned. If Illustrator offers options I’ll definitely give them a try too.
Well, in that case I would write down the text and type it in reversed. As long it’s not E.A. Poe’s "The Pendulum and the Pit" that is… BTW I’m off to sleep after 12 hours work, so I might not react until another twelve hours or so. (no offence intended)
//var s= new String (".gfedcbA"); // dm:commented, either this way… uncomment for long strings edited into the source
var s= new String (prompt("Enter a string to reverse:")); //dm: or this way… uncomment for interactive prompt on reload
for (i=s.length-1; i>=0; i–) { &tab;document.write (s.substr(i,1)); } </script> </head>
<body> </body> </html>
copy and paste that into a plain text file. give it a name that ends in ".html", like revstring.html. run it, enter your text in the prompt and copy and paste the reversed text into PS.
ALTERNATE, uncomment the first "var" line (javascript comments start with "//", to comment add those, to uncomment remove them)… anyway the alternate is to type a whole bunch of text in one shot in that string where you see ".gfedcbA"). Recomment the 2nd "var" stmt. if you wish to use it this way.
The first way and you can enter a new string each time you reload the page. The second way and you need to edit the file (ie reverse.html) and replace the text string THEN reload it in the browser.
I think that’s it. Hope there’s no bugs in translating it into forum speak… 🙂
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