Add support for vertical text typography arrangement to gain flexibility. Especially for east asia language situation.

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Add support for vertical text typography arrangement to gain flexibility. Especially for east asia language situation.

 

Due to the character feature, vertical text typography arragement is used very often in east-asian countrys, such as China, Japan, Korea,  in the current, we just use the text box to get a vertical arrangement, which is not addapt to a high percent vertical book publish, and also sometimes English also have a vertical arrangement sometimes(not as often as in east asian, those language character can be easily read even in vertical).

Picture belows shows how vertical arrangement existing in three main east asian country. Hope you can understand why some software added this feature in a long time ago. Even in English, it is useful and flexible.

Sometimes if a word have a vertical arrangement in other software, when it being imported to Affinity photo, it will have a strange look, and have to be arrange again.

 

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Sometimes if a word have a vertical arrangement in other software, when it being imported to Affinity photo, it will have a strange look, and have to be arrange again.

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If possible, add a option for "vertical left to right" and "vertical right to left", these situations is very common in east asia regions.

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and what else, add "vertical align to left" and "vertical align to right" option for big and small characters and dots.

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However, current text box can get this partly be done, but if image a hole passage is written in vertical, you will collapse by edit each block, if vertical text is existing, it will be a easy way, no need to drag the text box.

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Here is the often example.