I have a requirement to design some reports in a package which cannot rotate fonts. Hopefully the solution is to take a standard font like Arial, use your application to rotate it 90 degrees and then save it as Arial 90.
Having done this, I get a good result. The only problem is the spacing of characters when typed. If you can imagine I would type H on the first line. e on the second etc etc, until I had hello written down the page. It looks great but the letters are too far apart. Is there a way of resolving this and making a rotated font used in this way look better ?
You need to adjust top and bottom bearing-extent-lines (black, solid, horizontal lines). Go to:
Format → Settings → Windows tab and experiment by adjusting Win Ascent and Win Descent values; but see Erwin Denissen’s full discussion on the subject at:
I think Open Type also supports vertical side bearings for vertical scripts. Of course, you would need something like a Japanese word processor to take advantage of this field, but it is a workable solution if you have the time and resources.