does anyone know how to get vertical text in Corel draw X3?

[Ian Bingham]

short way
letter enter
letter enter
letter enter
or

[Nick Minall]

type text then draw a vertical line then fit to text to path, you need to play with the settings a bit to get the text the right way round then adjust the letter spacing…. 😕

[Steve Underhill]

Ha ha that’s what I have been doing, letter enter repeat,
nice one
Man why do they make it so hard to do a simple task, I love the program but the text tools need serious improvements.
I might just do it in Illustrator and import it I think.
The fir text to path thing makes it go vertical but the wrong way letters are next to each other not above/below each other, or is there another way like when you fit to a path under a circle and all that having to drag it about and re kern it etc?

[Ian Bingham]

like wise
i do it in sign lab, one click and its done, suppose that’s were the money went
if you find the magic button let me know
ian

[Colin Crow]

Orientation was in Coreldraw right up to version 12 but seems to have been missed out of X3 – oops! Strange, as you say, it appears in the help which probably hasn’t changed since V12.

[Steve Underhill]

The magic button was actually very easy to find, in fact there were several magic buttons. they went like this.
Minimize Corel X3, maximise Illustrator, Type "SOUTH" with the vertical type tool,
Then press Export, then open in Corel draw.
I cant for the life of me see why they make a 1 minute job into a 2 hour stress fest.
Oh well I found the "easy way" now I suppose

:lol1:

[Carl Maguire]

1: Open The Corel X3 Programme
2: Click On Tools on the Toolbar a the top
3: Click On Customisation
4: Down Th LH Side Click Commands
5: Go the the Drop Down Menu at the top and look for text
6: Select this so it shows bold
7: Scroll down the List until you see the word Vertical Text
8: Click and drag this to the command bar and then it should work
9: PS I did say Should Work as I do Find X3 Quite Unstable sometimes
Hope this Helps

[Colin Crow]

9: PS I did say Should Work as I do Find X3 Quite Unstable sometimes

A master of the understatement 😀 [/b]

[Carl Maguire]

Or is it my Machine that needs chucking out of Window ?

[Carl Maguire]

Or is it my Machine that needs chucking out of Window ?

[Andy Gorman]

I don’t think I’ve ever had any stability issues with X3. It needs a decent amount of memory, that’s for sure, but it has always run fine for me.

I’m going to really regret having said that……. 🙄

[David Rowland]

SP2 of Corel is working well for us and stability.

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I would have thought that 90degree text was easy… type it in and rotate? doesn’t that work?

[Steve Underhill]

No Dave I’m talking about vertical text.
IE like you typed, letters below one another.
Illustrator makes it easy so I just do it in that and import into corel now