Topic: fONTS ... vertical ones

[Hangman]

Would anyone know where I can get a font that I for can write column text        Ya know, like on the spine of a binder.

[CAB]

Why wouldn't you use mtext with one letter per line?

V
E
R
T
I
C
A
L

T
E
X
T

C
A
B
 

[Hangman]

Not bad if you have just a couple things to edit.   The difficult part is the 'letter', return, 'letter', return, 'letter', return.   I know, it's not THAT difficult, but doing several, over and over again gets very cumbersome, time consuming and annoying.   A vertical text would make typing a lot faster.   Unless you pick at it like a chicken,     then I guess it wouldn't matter.

[Dent Cermak]

Open the text style dialog box (Type "ST" or "STYLE") on the command line. Bottom Left corner under "effects" check "VERTICAL". Be sure to create a new style name for this text style, otherwise ALL type in this font will change within your drawinf.

[CAB]

Dent
I tried that in ACAD 2000 Windows 2000 and the text went up
the screen and the letters were not rotated. As if you selected
a 275 deg angle. Although the book shows vertical text
as he is looking for.  (dtext with shx font)

CAB

[Hangman]

Not to mention that w/ 2k4 ADT,  for some reason, not sure why, my selection for vertical font is grayed out.   Will not let me make that selection.  

[hudster]

works on mine, using romans and mtext.

[Kate M]

I don't think TTF fonts support vertical alignment, at least, not all of them.

[CAB]

Yes Kate..no TTF
In ACAD2000

Vertical

Displays the characters aligned vertically. Vertical is available only if the selected font supports dual orientation. Vertical orientation is not available for TrueType®  fonts.

Perhaps only some shx fonts support vertical orientation.

CAB

[CAB]

Hangman

When all else fails roll your own.

http://www.4dautomation.com/Autocad/Makefont.lsp

Instructions are found here.
http://www.cadresource.com/library/fonts.html