Rotate type, Rotate vertical type characters, Formatting paragraphs – Adobe Photoshop CS4 User Manual
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Type
Last updated 1/10/2010
Rotate type
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Do the following:
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To rotate type, select the type layer and use any rotate command or the Free Transform command. For paragraph
type, you can also select the bounding box and use a handle to rotate the type manually.
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To rotate multiple characters in vertical Asian text, use the tate-chu-yoko.
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Rotate vertical type characters
When working with vertical type, you can rotate the direction of characters by 90°. Rotated characters appear upright;
unrotated characters appear sideways (perpendicular to the type line).
Original type (left) and type without vertical rotation (right)
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Select the vertical type you want to rotate or unrotate.
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Choose Standard Vertical Roman Alignment from the Character panel menu. A check mark indicates that the
option is selected.
Note: You cannot rotate double-byte characters (full-width characters available only in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean
fonts). Any double-byte characters in the selected range will not be rotated.
Formatting paragraphs
Format paragraphs
For point type, each line is a separate paragraph. For paragraph type, each paragraph can have multiple lines,
depending on the dimensions of the bounding box.
You can select paragraphs and then use the Paragraph panel to set formatting options for a single paragraph, multiple
paragraphs, or all paragraphs in a type layer.
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Select the Horizontal Type tool
or the Vertical Type tool
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To apply formatting to a single paragraph, click in a paragraph.
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To apply formatting to multiple paragraphs, make a selection within a range of paragraphs.