Vertical text, right to left text, Japanese documents...

I downloaded the iWork '09 demo and immediately checked to see if I could finally type a Japanese document in the traditional way (lines vertical top to bottom, read right to left).
Am I correct in thinking this is still not possible?
This is the forth version of Pages and it's still impossible to write a document correctly in Japanese. On the Japanese iWork page all the screen shots show English language documents. This alone really says a lot about the quality of this product for non-English documents.
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Am I correct in thinking this is still not possible?
You are correct. Apple even says that this is the case when it lists the system requirements:
http://www.apple.com/iwork/systemrequirements.html
I think the only apps that can do vertical text in OS X are MS Word, NeoOffice/OpenOffice, iTextPro/LightwayText, plus Japanese InDesign or QuarkExpress 8.

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How can I enter vertical text that reads right-to-left in Pages? This is the traditional way of writing for some languages such as Japanese. This is trivial to do in Microsoft Word. There must be a way to do this in Pages. Can anyone help?

Tom Gewecke wrote:
Pages doesn't have that capability. Aside from Word, I think the only apps that might are iText/Lightway Text, Neo/OpenOffice, QuarkExpress 8, and the Japanese version of Adobe InDesign.
Yes, that is more or less my list as well. Last time I went to Japan, I tried to get hold of a copy of the discontinued Japanese word processor Egword, but failed. I asked one of the shopkeepers in Akihabara if there were no commonly used alternatives to MS Word 2008 for the Mac, and got the unusually clear answer "No".
The Japanese version of MS Word has the advantage over Western versions that it automatically proposes the hiragana when you add ruby text. I do not think that works in any of the Western versions, even if Japanese features are switched on.
In addition the Japanese version contains all (?) the Western dictionaries and proofing tools, like "French Grammar", "Nynorsk Hyphenation" and "German Thesaurus" and all that.
Provided you are able to read the Japanese text in the menus and dialogues, the Japanese version of MS Word is a fairly good investment.
By the way, last time I checked, only the English and Japanese versions of MS Word did vertical text and ruby. The French and German and the other ones do not. I think.

How to make Vertical Text start furom left to right?

Sometimes some customers must be vertical text from left to right
This is mainly for Asian fonts
Whether it can be achieved with script,Or are there other methods？
Thank you~

@喜狼_edny – hm. Possible, but the result is somehow unsatisfactory.
See for yourself.
We could start with some text right aligned in a table with just one single cell:
We could rotate the cell to 270° like that:
Code:
var myCell = app.selection[0].tables[0].cells[0];
myCell.rotationAngle = 270;
And now we need the text direction from right to left and all characters rotated to 180°:
Code:
var myCell = app.selection[0].tables[0].cells[0];
myCell.rotationAngle = 270;
myProperties = {
    composer : "$ID/HL Composer Optyca",
    characterDirection : CharacterDirectionOptions.RIGHT_TO_LEFT_DIRECTION,
    paragraphDirection : ParagraphDirectionOptions.RIGHT_TO_LEFT_DIRECTION,
    characterRotation : 180
myCell.texts[0].properties = myProperties;
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Ugh! Not exactly the result we expected…
(Tested with InDesign CS5.5 on OSX 10.6.8)
It's the characterRotation that is not working as expected.
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How to achieve Vertical Text,start From left to right?

How to achieve Vertical Text,start From left to right?
Maybe it does not make sense for English,but it is Quite useful for Chinese

@喜狼_edny – hm. Possible, but the result is somehow unsatisfactory.
See for yourself.
We could start with some text right aligned in a table with just one single cell:
We could rotate the cell to 270° like that:
Code:
var myCell = app.selection[0].tables[0].cells[0];
myCell.rotationAngle = 270;
And now we need the text direction from right to left and all characters rotated to 180°:
Code:
var myCell = app.selection[0].tables[0].cells[0];
myCell.rotationAngle = 270;
myProperties = {
    composer : "$ID/HL Composer Optyca",
    characterDirection : CharacterDirectionOptions.RIGHT_TO_LEFT_DIRECTION,
    paragraphDirection : ParagraphDirectionOptions.RIGHT_TO_LEFT_DIRECTION,
    characterRotation : 180
myCell.texts[0].properties = myProperties;
Result:
Ugh! Not exactly the result we expected…
(Tested with InDesign CS5.5 on OSX 10.6.8)
It's the characterRotation that is not working as expected.
Uwe
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I have an iPad 2 with iworks, in pages and keynote I noticed it cuts the first letter on the right when I open an imported doc or ppt or even paste text from an email. I type in Hebrew (right to left language).

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Never got a warning that this apps do not work In my language. They are available in my country's AppStore and that was the reason I bought the iPad.
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Diego

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