Space after every character. GREP?

Hi Bart,

I see two solutions.

1. Working with a text path like you did:

Apply tracking to e.g. 300.

For all white space use a GREP Style that scales it to e.g. 200% horizontally.

GREP: \h

Note: The last character of the text will not react to kerning tracking.

Add a character at the end of all texts on path and use a GREP Style to make it invisible.

Set that character style's fill color to "None".

GREP: .$

Here a screenshot of the result:

2. Use a rotated text frame (-90°) and rotate all characters to 90°. That can be done with a script that uses the Adobe Japanese Paragraph Composer and the character.rotate command that is not available in the UI for non-Japanese versions of InDesign.

For all white space use a GREP Style that scales it to e.g. 150% horizontally.

GREP: \h

Here a screenshot of the result:

A script that can do this can be found here:

https://indesignsecrets.com/free-script-to-rotate-selected-characters.php

The sample I am showing above was done by my own script, but Keith Gilbert's version should do it as well.

EDIT: Forgot one thing.

If you did the rotation of characters you could save the formatting as paragraph style as I was showing this in the screenshot above.

All tests done with InDesign CS6 8.1.0 on Mac OS X 10.6.8. Keith' script will run on Mac or Windows because it's written in ExtendScript (JavaScript).

Regards,
Uwe