Q: could anyone tell me how to mirror image text on pages app

Text of itself is not an object, and in Pages, only objects can be flipped or rotated. Insert a Text box below your current paragraph, and scale it to the same size as your paragraph of text. Copy and paste your current paragraph text into the Text box, and change it to the identical font attributes as the original paragraph. You may have to pull downward on the [+] symbol to enlarge the Text box to eliminate overflow.

On the Arrange tab, with the Text box selected, you can set Text Wrap to None, and then in the Rotate section, you will have the ability to flip the text either along the vertical or horizontal axis.

Here is flipped on the horizontal plain:

There are two Flip controls and four combinations. This was clicking the → just once.

@VikingOSX:

I knew i'd 'not seen' that stranger somewhere before. Nice choice.

@Andyggg20:

You wrote: "the mirror image I'm talking about would be back to front so if I put it against a mirror I could read it"

How does VikngOSX's example not fit that statement?

Regards,

Barry

Hi Barry,

How does VikngOSX's example not fit that statement?

Just for fun, place a mirror flat on the floor and stand on it. Crunch, oops, not a good idea .

Better: place a mirror flat on the floor and stand near it. You will see yourself upside-down .

Regards,

Ian.

Perhaps at this point in our lives, mirrors report superfluous detail. Tell me Yellowbox, has not standing on our mirrors been the real problem all along, or is that just an Oz phenomena?

Hi Viking,

has not standing on our mirrors been the real problem all along, or is that just an Oz phenomena?

Yes, I'm afraid so

Regards from Down Under.

Ian.

It is a good thing that you didn't show this map to Guspard-Gustave de Coriolis, or he would simply gone mad...

"Just for fun, place a mirror flat on the floor and stand on it. Crunch, oops, not a good idea .

Better: place a mirror flat on the floor and stand near it. You will see yourself upside-down ."

Done with text on a page, and much the same viewpoint, a line of text might look a bit like this :

—---——— ——--—---—- ----—-——---—

Do you mean (again with text) this:

Regards,

Barry

But why does the map say it is "upside down"?

Barry

That is the McArthur's Universal Corrective Map of the World and is the world map used in classrooms throughout Australia and New Zealand.

We know and tolerate the incorrect version used in the northern hemisphere, along with the parochial use of terms for launch dates "in the fall"; insects, arachnids and all manner of arthropods as "bugs", black eyed beans as "peas" and mammalian cetaceans as "fish". We also understand the reference to "gas", which is actually a liquid, and the consequence of the excessive usage of it is not just monetary, also that Quantative Easing is a euphemism for printing money and that con men really are not going to "make you soooooooooo rich, that you are going to ask me to stop", and that reality TV is not really reality.

Everything else is a matter for local educational imperatives. The obsession with Kardashian's arse and Powerpoint presentations is due to the principal requirements for college graduates as burger tossers.

So reflected text is made by selecting a Textbox > Format > Flip horizontal,

Reflecting on the text is the responsibility of all thinking individuals. ;0

Peter

Did I read somewhere that the only requirement for mirroring text in Australia was draining a slab while drinking with the flies, and getting off one's face?

Some of us understand all that too, and can wrap our minds around the conundrum of "LNG", but it doesn't explain why the map says it is upside down.

Barry

Hi Andy,

Please forgive this "jesting and testing" .

There are three ways to flip a Text Box. I think you want 'Flip Horizontal' to achieve a mirror image.

The extra one I added: 'Rotate 180 degrees' is identical to 'Flip Horizontal and Vertical' but that is simply for more 'jesting and testing'.

Select the Text Box, then Format Panel > Arrange > Rotate > Flip > (the right pointing arrow)

Regards,

Ian.