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Changing Text Direction in Callouts


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Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums, @bgf.

Change in what way? Can you provide an example of what you want to accomplish, or expand your description a bit?

(If it seems silly that I don't understand what seems to be a simple question, Callouts are just an object that you would put text on top of. Thus, whatever method you would use to "change text direction" elsewhere would work on a Callout, too. So there may be something unusual happening for you to need to ask :) )

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I want to change the text direction in the attached callout, but can't find a way to do so. I want the text to run left to right, top to bottom as you would normally read text on the page of an American novel.

I created a callout shape and then inserted text via the Frame Text Tool since I knew no other way to get text into the callout. Now I can't find a way to manipulate the text so that it reads left to right, top to bottom. I'd be most appreciative if someone can tell me how to do so.

Thanks. Bryan

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Thanks. I wondered if that was your situation.

The problem you're having is that by rotating the object you also applied rotation to anything it contains, such as the Frame Text that you added.

Try this:

First, add a callout, which will have its usual orientation:

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Then, rotate it as you want:

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Then, before adding your text, you need to reset the rotation orientation of the callout. So, draw a rectangle over it with the rectangle tool:

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Finally, select both the rectangle and the callout in the Layers panel, and Intersect them using Layer > Geometry > Intersect from the menu or this Toolbar button:

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That will give you a Curve layer with the proper rotation orientation:

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Then add your Frame Text.

(Or, @DWright 's way :) )

 

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And, here's another way

Create your callout and adjust it how you want it
Layer > Convert to Text Frame
Create a new text frame somewhere else on the page
Drag it over your shape text and Pin it to the Shape text
(See screenshot below)

 

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