I’m trying to design a HTML application to display some text that is to be printed. I need some of that text to be upside down. I cannot find an appropriate upside-down font, so thought I’d see about trial-ing a font editor and seeing if I can rotate the letters I need to use…
But when I open up a font (any font it seems) in FontCreator, the rotate, mirror, etc (basically every option in the Transform window) is greyed out.
Am I missing something? Why is everything greyed out? Is it because I’m using a trial version?
No, its not because its a trial version. Its because you haven’t selected anything to transform/rotate. Select all of the contours in the glyph edit window first with Ctrl A.
If the trial version doesn’t let you install fonts, you can test them in the Test Font window, or in other applications while the test window is open. A temporary font FC Test Font nnnnn is created.
The Trial version is the same as the full Professional version, so you can use the Transform Wizard to rotate all glyphs at once.
Select all the glyphs you want to rotate in the glyph overview window
Select the Glyph Transformer from the tools menu.
From the Outlines category on the left, select “Rotate” and add it to the script on the right.
Select the options you want and run the script (There is no undo for transformations. You can work around this by copying all the glyphs first at stage 1, pasting them back after running the transform script, then undo the paste operation).
This test with Times New Roman took just a few seconds to do:
