Text direction in Pages

How do I make text flow vertically in a text box in Pages? I am creating a fact sheet, and I want a sidebar at the left in which the title of the fact sheet is read vertically.

Do you mean you want to rotate the title 90 degrees? If so, put the text in a separate text box, set it as "Fixed to page" in the Wrap Inspector, and then in the Metrics Inspector rotate the box.

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Change text direction in Pages, Chinese style, characters run down the page.

How so I make it so text in text boxes runs in the traditional chinese style. Characters in text boxes should run down the page instead of across the page.

The only Apple app which can do this is TextEdit. Format > Make Layout Vertical
Other non-Apple apps where it may be possible are MS Word, OpenOffice, iText Pro

Why can't i write text directly in a Pages document without using a text box ?

Hello buddies,
Once upon a time, when I was running Leopard on my MB black, I was able to open a Pages document and type text directly without creating a textbox. That was a great way to take notes during a meeting or to past a long document in, without thinking how many pages it will takes.
Apparently, this is no more possible ...
Is any of you can tell me why ?
And then how can I do to have this possibility back ?
Thanks forward,
Best regards,
Stéphane

Because you have opened a Layout template.
Go back to the Template Chooser and pick a Word Processing template, they are listed in the sidebar.
Peter

I cant copy/paste from an article to my web site, get a Mozilla Rich Text Editing demo page will not work.HELP

Tried to copy/paste from an article to my web site and got a "cannot copy /paste " warning and was directed to a security perferences site that said that Mozilla Rich Text Editing demo page will not work.
Tried to find my Firefox profile directory using the start menu and was directed to hit enter to go to web. Feel like i am getting run around.

Let's start with something very basic, and that is, you do not need to use the paste button on most websites. The button just reads what is on your clipboard and sticks it into the form. You can do that yourself using Ctrl+v or right-click>Paste.
For your security, I suggest using those standard Windows keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl+x cut, Ctrl+c copy, Ctrl+v paste) or the context menu.
Occasionally you will find a paste button that runs a clean-up script or otherwise does something useful. That is where the (admittedly a bit complicated) instructions come in handy.
To open your active profile folder, you can use:
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Which help article are you using for the modifications?
Finally, please be cautious in opening up your clipboard to sites. You may have stuff you copied from other pages or other programs that you do not want to share with most sites.

Text in iWeb pages.

Dear all:
I am experiencing a problem with iWeb.
The text I create on iWeb pages don't seem to be rendered as text but rather images. After I created several pages for my business' web page, publish them to a folder and open with any browser (I use Safari) the text can't be selected but appears as one image block that I can drag just like an image and save to my desktop.
Is this the way iWeb handles text ?
This obviously represents a big problem as the pages can not be properly indexed with search engines such as Google and it affects the overall ranking of my business' web site.
How can iWeb create text that is rendered as text once pages are published ?
In case it can't what is one supposed to do to have the text on the pages appear as text to the spiders from search engines ?
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This ALT tags you are referring to, are they the tags
associated with images for accessibility purposes
(visually impaired users) ?
I don't know if they are used in that way. I do know that this text in the ALT tags is displayed whenever the actual image becomes unavailable. Have a look at the source HTML of your own page to get an idea of what this looks like.
In regards to keywords how can one enter keywords for
differenet iWeb pages to improve ranking with search
engines ?
I think with the modern search engines like Google, keywords and other meta-information has become less useful and certainly not necessary to get your page indexed properly. These search engines work mostly off contextual information like the ALT tags and other things contained in the HTML code. If you would like to add meta information, that is certainly possible....but not through iWeb directly. You would need to edit the HTML and add them yourself. Here is a thread in which I have posted the general format...
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=2685951&#2685951

Vertical text direction / orientation in tables. (RoboHelp 7 and/or 8)

Hello all,
I need to squeeze a fairly full table (lots of columns) into a printable page width.
In order to do this, I need to put text into some of the cells so that they read vertically. I can do this in MS Word tables (menu > Format > Text Direction) and need an equivalent in RH. Preferably RH7, (but can import into RH8 if I must ).
Any ideas anyone?

Hi Philip
My guess is that you can probably fudge it using CSS. But it won't be something RoboHelp will assist with in any way.
Check the link below for one hit I found. Use Google searching for vertical text in HTML to find others.
Click here to view
Cheers... Rick
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How to display Japanese Text in web page?

Hi,
I am trying to get this i18n stuff right for a few days but don't seem to find all answers.
I am using Sybase databse to store Japanese characters. A perl script inserts the chars in table. Then I use a test JSP program to display the chars.
<%@ page contentType="text/html; charset=UTF-8" %>
<%@ page language="java" %>
<%@ page import="java.io.*" %>
<%@ page import="java.sql.*" %>
<%@ page import="java.util.*" %>
<%@ page import="javax.sql.*" %>
<%@ page import="javax.servlet.*" %>
<%@ page import="javax.servlet.http.*" %>
<%@ page import="javax.naming.InitialContext" %>
<%@ page import="java.text.SimpleDateFormat" %>
<html>
<head><title>testing for utf string</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
</head>
<body>
<%
Connection conn = null;
Statement stmt = null;
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</html>But the page does not display correctly. If I change the charset as JIS, then it seems to work. But my web page will be having chars from multiple language and I think utf-8 is the right charset for that.
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Thanks

What JSP/Servlet server are you using and what version?
Try this just for debugging:
Remove the rs.getString(1) from the out.println() call. Just assign the returned value to a local String variable and display the variable using (I hope I'm remembering correctly) this:
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I'm curious whether directly inserting the text into the page is somehow different from sending it via out.println.
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How to reverse text direction in keynote?

Hello everybody,
I use Bullets ans lists a lot. One issue is that giving that i'm using Arabic language, the Bullets and Lists comes to the left of the text while it should come before the text, meaning to the right.
Using Pages I have no problem at all becouse there is the option "reverse text direction" under Alignment options. Can anybody help if such an option is avaliable in Keynote?
Thanks in advance.

With your keyboard set to US, choose the text option with bullets. Then switch your keyboard to Arabic and type. Or set your OS language to Arabic before opening Keynote (it will still have its menus, etc in English).
It will still be good if Keynote had a direction control like Pages, so ask Apple to add that via
http://www.apple.com/feedback
For an earlier discussion, see
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/5531456?start=15&tstart=0

Can't change text direction in a table

Hi all
I was making a table in pages but were not able to alter text direction within a cell, any help

Hi, and welcome to Apple Discussions and the Pages '08 forum.
As Yvan says, rotation of text in a table cell is not a supported feature in Pages. You can achieve the same visual effect, though, using a Text box to hold the text.
Insert a Text box.
Enter and format the text.
Use the Wrap inspector to uncheck "Object causes wrap"
Use the Metrics inspector to Rotate the box and contents 90°.
Drag the box into position in front of the (empty) cell.
Optional, but encouraged:
Choose "Provide Pages Feedback" from the Pages menu.
Send feedback to Apple requesting this feature be added.
Wait for Pages '10 and check for the feature there.
Regards,
Barry

Direction of page item

Hi ,
I am drawing two text frame as page item on my spread.
I want to set its direction to kNone. How can iset its direction and later retrieve its direction using scripting.
Thanks in advance for any valuable suggestion.
Regards,
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If he's using kNone, it's an SDK question...
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Adding text to indesign pages with specific font ,size,and color using javascript

Hello,
Using javascript i am able to add some text to each page of an indesign file.
myNewText = "SOME TEXT"
myTextFrame = myPage.textFrames.item(0);
tempframe = myTextFrame.contents;
myTextFrame.contents = myNewText + tempframe ;
But i want to specify the font used,size and color for that text.
When i try the code mentioned in indesign javascript scripting guide
myNewText .appliedFont = app.fonts.item("Times New Roman");
myNewText .fontStyle = "Bold";
nothing gets changed and font family already used stays the same.
How can i do that only for the added text and not for the whole content?I dont want to add the text to a new text frame I want to append it to the existing text frame.
And is there a way to specify font size too?
thank you

There's a mixup going on here. Let's see if we can sort out some of it
at least.
If you just want to add new text to an already existing text frame,
that's easy:
myTextFrame.contents += "Hello";
But if you want the new text to have unique formatting, it's a little
more complicated.
There are two simple ways to do it, I think:
1. Create a temporary text frame, as you have done, and add the text,
and format everything in there. Then move() that formatted text to the
end of myTextFrame and delete the temporary frame:
tempFrame = app.activeDocument.textFrames.add();
tempFrame.contents = "New Text";
tempFrame.paragraphs[0].appliedFont = app.fonts.itemByName("Times New
Roman"); // etc...
tempFrame.paragraphs[0].move(myTextFrame.insertionPoints[-1],
LocationOptions.AFTER);
tempFrame.remove();
2. The other option, is to add the text directly to your textFrame. But
if you want to format only that text, you have to store where the text
started:
myTextFrame = app.selection[0];
firstInsertionPoint = myTextFrame.insertionPoints[-1].index;
myTextFrame.contents += "New Text";
myAddedText =
myTextFrame.characters.itemByRange(myTextFrame.insertionPoints[firstInsertionPoint],
myTextFrame.insertionPoints[-1]);
myAddedText.appliedFont = app.fonts.itemByName("Trajan Pro"); // etc.
What you've done in your sample script, however, is to try to apply a
font to a simple JavaScript string. It won't work, but the way you did
it, it won't throw an error either, because in fact you've created a new
property of your string. (myString = "Hello"; myString.appliedFont =
"Times"; // myString now has a Javascript property called appliedFont --
but that's nothing to do with InDesign!)
HTH,
Ariel

I have been sent a 'word document' in which are a series of boxes about thirty lines long to insure written text. When Pages opens the document it extends these to a whole A4 page how do I get it to retain the original layout

I have been sent a 'word document' in which are a series of boxes about thirty lines long to insert written text. When Pages opens the document it extends these to a whole A4 page how do I get it to retain the original layout

You can't change the way Pages import .doc files.
It was never written that it reproduce exactly the original one.
From my point of view, as I refuse to give a cent to M...soft, the best way to deal with documents issued by their Office suite is to use the free libreOffice.
Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) jeudi 7 juillet 2011 11:34:19 iMac 21”5, i7, 2.8 GHz, 4 Gbytes, 1 Tbytes, mac OS X 10.6.8
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