Looking for an upside-down font.

[Dimocritus]

Because my spag-ass doesn't know how to use anything but MS word and I need it for something I'm working on. Something cool, but preferably free (by preferably, I mean mandatory). I found a few in my voyages, but couldn't get any of them to work. Thanks.

[Golden Applesauce]

Because my spag-ass doesn't know how to use anything but MS word and I need it for something I'm working on. Something cool, but preferably free (by preferably, I mean mandatory). I found a few in my voyages, but couldn't get any of them to work. Thanks.

Use word-art, select a regular font instead of the crazy arty things, and then rotate it by 180 degrees.

[The Johnny]

If its for a poster, just cling it to the wall upside down. 

[Suu]

If its for a poster, just cling it to the wall upside down. 

But if he wants both upside down and rightside up words on the same poster, that won't work.

[Reginald Ret]

make the poster in two files and make one file with the rightside up letters and the other with the upside down letters.
step 2 is the hard one: figure out how to feed paper to your printer in the right way to get your desired result.

[Elder Iptuous]

arrange for your target audience to be upside down when reading your work...

[Cramulus]

if you're using Word - word art is the answer

the other answer is typing the text into MS Paint or something, flip vertical, save. Then insert into doc.

[the other anonymous]

http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/postscript/pdfs/PLRM.pdf

Then: 180 rotate
Or: [ whatever an upside down matrix looks like ] makefont

-toa,
not very helpful

[Golden Applesauce]

http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/postscript/pdfs/PLRM.pdf

Then: 180 rotate
Or: [ whatever an upside down matrix looks like ] makefont

-toa,
not very helpful

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[the other anonymous]

http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/postscript/pdfs/PLRM.pdf

Then: 180 rotate
Or: [ whatever an upside down matrix looks like ] makefont

-toa,
not very helpful

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You're saying

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and according to section 4.3,

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Thus, I redact the makefont suggestion.

-toa,
math is easy... for extremely difficult definitions of "easy"

[Jean-Lustine d'Hadamard]

I normally just put the paper in the printer upside-down.

[Bruno]

˙ʇǝddnd ɔıƃɐɯ ɐ ɯ,ı 'uıɐƃɐ uǝɥʇ ʇnq 'ǝɯ ɹoɟ sʞɹoʍ ʎןןɐnsn ʇɐɥʇ

¿,,ƃuɐɹǝɯooz ƃuɐɹǝɯooʇ ƃuɐɹǝɯooq,, ƃuıʎɐs ʎɹʇ noʎ pıp

[Triple Zero]

btw I found these by GOOGLING for UPSIDE DOWN FONT and CLICKING the LINKS, READING them and FOLLOWING some that seemed RELEVANT

anyway

http://www.webfontlist.com/pages/font.asp?font=11681 haven't tried, but from a screenshot I found somewhere I see that the baseline is fucked. But if you're willing to live with that ..

http://home.comcast.net/~somethingextree/UpsideDown.ttf also didn't try.

http://www.fontspace.com/casa-phunk-phonts/blufunken-side-a (lowercase letters are regular, uppercase is upside down)

http://www.searchfreefonts.com/font/upsidedown-jj.htm this one looks pretty good, nice clean readable.
http://www.searchfreefonts.com/font/upsidedown-toc.htm similar, but serifed.

ok this should get you started. if you want to look for more, do it yourself: http://www.google.com/search?num=100&q=upside+down+font

btw you said you had trouble getting them to work. just in case you don't know, you install a font by copying (or drag'n'dropping) the .TTF file to the directory c:\windows\fonts or it could be c:\windows\system\fonts it kinda depends on which windows you have, but it needs to be in the fonts directory. then you restart Word, and you can use the font.

[Dimocritus]

Hey, thanks a bunch guys! I haven't had time to try any of your suggestions yet, I just wanted to pop in to say I appreciate the (hopefully) helpful responses.

But if he wants both upside down and rightside up words on the same poster, that won't work.

I will be using both, upside down and right side up lettering, I probably should have clarified that.

arrange for your target audience to be upside down when reading your work...

This is just 

I normally just put the paper in the printer upside-down.

Too lazy... 

˙ʇǝddnd ɔıƃɐɯ ɐ ɯ,ı 'uıɐƃɐ uǝɥʇ ʇnq 'ǝɯ ɹoɟ sʞɹoʍ ʎןןɐnsn ʇɐɥʇ

¿,,ƃuɐɹǝɯooz ƃuɐɹǝɯooʇ ƃuɐɹǝɯooq,, ƃuıʎɐs ʎɹʇ noʎ pıp

I'm not sure if I'm at a high enough level to work that incantation yet. Hell, maybe I'm just not high enough...

000-Thanks, but my guitarist just gave me a crash course in installing fonts (I know, I'm a total spag). I will check out the stuff you linked to, though. Thanks a lot.

I think I'm going to have to get my hands on MS paint, eventually though... I'll let you guys know how I made out. Thanks again.

[Triple Zero]

MS Paint comes with Windows. It's in the Bureau Accesoires / Zubehör folder in the Start Menu (damn I can't for the life of me remember what it was called in English, heh. It's the same folder that the Calculator and Notepad are in.

It's called just "Paint", btw.