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Principia Discordia => Apple Talk => Topic started by: Dimocritus on November 05, 2009, 11:11:35 PM

Title: Looking for an upside-down font.
Post by: Dimocritus on November 05, 2009, 11:11:35 PM
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.
Title: Re: Looking for an upside-down font.
Post by: Golden Applesauce on November 05, 2009, 11:13:17 PM
Quote from: dimo on November 05, 2009, 11:11:35 PM
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.
Title: Re: Looking for an upside-down font.
Post by: The Johnny on November 05, 2009, 11:28:00 PM

If its for a poster, just cling it to the wall upside down.  :|
Title: Re: Looking for an upside-down font.
Post by: Suu on November 05, 2009, 11:28:59 PM
Quote from: JohNyx on November 05, 2009, 11:28:00 PM

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.
Title: Re: Looking for an upside-down font.
Post by: Reginald Ret on November 06, 2009, 12:30:00 AM
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.

Title: Re: Looking for an upside-down font.
Post by: Elder Iptuous on November 06, 2009, 12:35:40 AM
arrange for your target audience to be upside down when reading your work...
Title: Re: Looking for an upside-down font.
Post by: Cramulus on November 06, 2009, 12:51:34 AM
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.
Title: Re: Looking for an upside-down font.
Post by: the other anonymous on November 06, 2009, 01:15:16 AM
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
Title: Re: Looking for an upside-down font.
Post by: Golden Applesauce on November 06, 2009, 01:22:21 AM
Quote from: the other anonymous on November 06, 2009, 01:15:16 AM
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


[0 ... 0 0 1]
[0 ... 0 1 0]
[0 ... 1 0 0]
[...     ...]
[1 ... 0 0 0]
Title: Re: Looking for an upside-down font.
Post by: the other anonymous on November 06, 2009, 01:33:11 AM
Quote from: GA on November 06, 2009, 01:22:21 AM
Quote from: the other anonymous on November 06, 2009, 01:15:16 AM
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


[0 ... 0 0 1]
[0 ... 0 1 0]
[0 ... 1 0 0]
[...     ...]
[1 ... 0 0 0]


You're saying

[ 0 0 1 ]
[ 0 1 0 ]
[ 1 0 0 ]

and according to section 4.3,

[ a b 0 ]
[ c d 0 ]
[ x y 1 ]
-> [ a b c d x y ]

Thus, I redact the makefont suggestion.

-toa,
math is easy... for extremely difficult definitions of "easy"
Title: Re: Looking for an upside-down font.
Post by: Jean-Lustine d'Hadamard on November 06, 2009, 09:54:05 PM
I normally just put the paper in the printer upside-down.
Title: Re: Looking for an upside-down font.
Post by: Bruno on November 06, 2009, 10:11:48 PM
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¿,,ƃuɐɹǝɯooz ƃuɐɹǝɯooʇ ƃuɐɹǝɯooq,, ƃuıʎɐs ʎɹʇ noʎ pıp
Title: Re: Looking for an upside-down font.
Post by: Triple Zero on November 06, 2009, 10:20:08 PM
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.

Title: Re: Looking for an upside-down font.
Post by: Dimocritus on November 06, 2009, 11:06:33 PM
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.
Quote from: Suu on November 05, 2009, 11:28:59 PM
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.
Quote from: Iptuous on November 06, 2009, 12:35:40 AM
arrange for your target audience to be upside down when reading your work...
This is just  :lulz:
Quote from: Jean-Lustine d'Hadamard on November 06, 2009, 09:54:05 PM
I normally just put the paper in the printer upside-down.
Too lazy...  :oops:
Quote from: Jerry_Frankster on November 06, 2009, 10:11:48 PM
˙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.
Title: Re: Looking for an upside-down font.
Post by: Triple Zero on November 06, 2009, 11:10:10 PM
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.
Title: Re: Looking for an upside-down font.
Post by: Eater of Clowns on November 06, 2009, 11:14:08 PM
Quote from: Triple Zero on November 06, 2009, 11:10:10 PM
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.

It's called Zubehor in English as well, pronounced ZUBE-whore (ZUBE-hoah in New England spag).
Title: Re: Looking for an upside-down font.
Post by: Subtract Eight! on November 06, 2009, 11:47:34 PM
just use o's
Title: Re: Looking for an upside-down font.
Post by: LMNO on November 09, 2009, 12:58:17 PM
Quote from: Triple Zero on November 06, 2009, 10:20:08 PM
btw I found these by GOOGLING for UPSIDE DOWN FONT and CLICKING the LINKS, READING them and FOLLOWING some that seemed RELEVANT

:potd:
Title: Re: Looking for an upside-down font.
Post by: AFK on November 09, 2009, 01:48:42 PM
Go old school.  Print stuff out.  Cut out the stuff you want upside down,  glue it to the paper.  Photocopy, etc. 
Title: Re: Looking for an upside-down font.
Post by: Cramulus on November 09, 2009, 02:34:01 PM
Quote from: Triple Zero on November 06, 2009, 11:10:10 PM
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.

yeah but then we'd be the WOP cabal


"Wop", like "spag", is sometimes used as an insult for italians.
funny how that works, eh?

It's like Our Lady Eris wants us to be mad at ...ancient Romans?
Title: Re: Looking for an upside-down font.
Post by: Template on November 09, 2009, 03:36:27 PM
Quote from: Cramulus on November 09, 2009, 02:34:01 PM
Quote from: Triple Zero on November 06, 2009, 11:10:10 PM
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.

yeah but then we'd be the WOP cabal


"Wop", like "spag", is sometimes used as an insult for italians.
funny how that works, eh?

It's like Our Lady Eris wants us to be mad at ...ancient Romans?

Well, thought I heard the Neocons were ripping off the Roman Imperial motif at one point.  We could always show them how a real War God(dess) does things.
Title: Re: Looking for an upside-down font.
Post by: the other anonymous on November 09, 2009, 03:39:26 PM
Quote from: yhnmzw on November 09, 2009, 03:36:27 PM
We could always show them how a real War God(dess) does things.

Eris is not a war goddess. War takes strategy and planning and that's not very chaotic. Eris is the goddess of pink clouds and fluffy bunnies! Now that's Chaos!
Title: Re: Looking for an upside-down font.
Post by: Reginald Ret on November 09, 2009, 10:38:22 PM
Quote from: the other anonymous on November 09, 2009, 03:39:26 PM
Quote from: yhnmzw on November 09, 2009, 03:36:27 PM
We could always show them how a real War God(dess) does things.

Eris is not a war goddess. War takes strategy and planning and that's not very chaotic. Eris is the goddess of pink clouds and fluffy bunnies! Now that's Chaos!


War isn't disorderly?

let me use an argument you can understand
in Xena: Warrior Princess the god of war was the most incompetent tactician ever, in fact he was near retarded.
gods of war dont have to be good at making war, they just have to like it alot.
Title: Re: Looking for an upside-down font.
Post by: Telarus on November 09, 2009, 11:14:35 PM
toa, where you aware that we have discovered that all War Planning in the Roman Senate happened in the temple of Bellona (an aspect of Eris/Enyo)?

Check out the Ancient Greeks and Eris thread in the PD sub-forum.
Title: Re: Looking for an upside-down font.
Post by: Cainad (dec.) on November 10, 2009, 02:20:47 AM
Quote from: the other anonymous on November 09, 2009, 03:39:26 PM
Quote from: yhnmzw on November 09, 2009, 03:36:27 PM
We could always show them how a real War God(dess) does things.

Eris is not a war goddess. War takes strategy and planning and that's not very chaotic. Eris is the goddess of pink clouds and fluffy bunnies! Now that's Chaos!


You trollin'?
Title: Re: Looking for an upside-down font.
Post by: the other anonymous on November 10, 2009, 02:27:37 AM
Quote from: Cainad on November 10, 2009, 02:20:47 AM
Quote from: the other anonymous on November 09, 2009, 03:39:26 PM
Quote from: yhnmzw on November 09, 2009, 03:36:27 PM
We could always show them how a real War God(dess) does things.

Eris is not a war goddess. War takes strategy and planning and that's not very chaotic. Eris is the goddess of pink clouds and fluffy bunnies! Now that's Chaos!


You trollin'?

Winnar.