<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:Roboto,RobotoDraft,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:14px">Try typing either 90 or 270 degrees into the box for rotation. One of those will give you type heading in the direction you desire.</span><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 10:45 AM Cliffe Connor <<a href="mailto:cliffeconnor@gmail.com">cliffeconnor@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Greg,<br>
Thank you for getting back to me. I've found the properties palette and the<br>
rotation section. Can you tell me step by step what to do next? I can see<br>
that the text box can be rotated, but when I type into it, it still has the<br>
text going in the wrong direction!<br>
Help!<br>
Thanks,<br>
Cliffe<br>
<br>
On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 8:13 AM Gregory Pittman <<a href="mailto:gpittman@iglou.com" target="_blank">gpittman@iglou.com</a>> wrote:<br>
<br>
> On 12/11/20 8:55 AM, Cliffe Connor wrote:<br>
> > Good Morning,<br>
> > I am creating a book cover in Scribus for a Lulu publication. I am using<br>
> > the template from Lulu and have been able to insert the back cover art<br>
> and<br>
> > the front cover art into the template with Scribus. But I can't figure<br>
> out<br>
> > how to get the spine text going the right way. How do I get the text to<br>
> go<br>
> > down the spine instead of horizontally across the spine? So far, I have<br>
> > just tried "inserting a text box" into the spine, but can't figure out<br>
> > where to go to change the direction of the text. Any help would be<br>
> greatly<br>
> > appreciated. The more specific, the better! I'm not very technologically<br>
> > savvy, so most of these things aren't automatic for me.<br>
> > Thank you very much for your help.<br>
><br>
> Hi Cliffe,<br>
><br>
> Use the Properties palette to rotate the text frame 90 degrees in the<br>
> direction you want.<br>
><br>
> Greg<br>
><br>
><br>
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