"Rotate characters" function disappear

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June 29, 2022
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I would like you rotate specific character in a paragraph, but I cannot find this funtion in the "character" panel and also find/change>change formate setting, thanks!

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Correct answer Laubender

Hi @oolongmi ,

good question. Hope this article will help:

Adobe InDesign Tips: Japanese/CJK Functionality + English UI—Redux
By Dr Ken Lunde, Nov 5, 2019
https://ken-lunde.medium.com/adobe-indesign-tips-japanese-cjk-functionality-english-ui-redux-539528e295c6

Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( Adobe Community Professional )

aniri5j9ox8tw2ln

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You cannot rotate a character in a paragraph, only simulate the italic with an inclination (from -85° to +85°).

aniri5j9ox8tw2ln

Legend

I have found another interesting method to do applicate the rotation for characters in Indesign:

https://creativepro.com/rotating-text-with-a-character-style/

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Laubender

Community Expert

Hi @aniri5j9ox8tw2ln ,

thank you for pointing us to that solution where importing a character style with text rotation from Illustrator to InDesign with CC Libraries does the job for InDesign!

Did you test that with InDesign 2022 and Illustrator 2022?

First I had no success if only property Character Rotation was stored with the character style and loaded to an InDesign document:

It needed a second property apart from Character Rotation, e.g. a fill color stored with the character style, that finally the character is showing up as rotated:

Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( Adobe Community Professional )

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Laubender

Community Expert

Hi @oolongmi ,

this should only be possible when one of the two Japanese paragraph composers are applied to the text.

From the GUI only available if you use the CJK ( Chinese, Japanese, Korean ) version of InDesign.

With scripting ExtendScript (JavaScript) this can be done in all other versions as well. But the basic thing is, your text must use one of the two Japanese paragraph composers.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( Adobe Community Professional )