Illustrator: trying to use the vertical type tool I am trying to type vertical text however just it comes out rotated

[Xenon09]

Anyone Help ?

[Monika Gause]

In the Preferences > Type

switch to eastern asian options.

[Xenon09]

How ?

[Monika Gause]

Which version is this?

WHich language is installed?

[Xenon09]

Last version i had just downloaded from adobe creative cloud cc 2017

English supported Arabic

[Monika Gause]

In that case you maybe do not have that option and would need a different language.

[Xenon09]

different language Like what its already English but just supported to type Arabic

[Monika Gause]

It looks like Arabic type support (or rather RTL support in general) cannot have east asian support.

That's what this whole switch is about. You can have either Indic or East Asian.

So you need to install a version that is not Arabic or Hebrew or any other RTL language.

[Jacob Bugge]

Xenon,

Zaid has shown the way already, before my reading any of this.

[Xenon09]

Thanks

[Jacob Bugge]

For my (non) part you are welcome, Xenon.

[Zaid Al Hilali · Accepted solution]

My Illustrator is English with Arabic Support too. I'm able to have vertical text by turning "Standard Vertical Roman Alignment" on from the Character's Panel fly-out menu.

The important thing is to combine above option with a non-Middle Eastern composer in Paragraph's Panel fly-out menu, this way together will let Illustrator know that you're dealing with non-Arabic script.