Flip text box for printing backwards

[jenlion]

Is there some way to have a text box print backwards and upside-down?

We have a check form that, when folded, is also an envelope. The middle third of the envelope/check contains a window. The bottom third prints the address so that, when folded, it shows through the window. The trick is that the address will be upside-down and backwards because of the fold.

I found a font that prints mirror image, but not upside-down.

I know we can do this with an image, but how to do with a chunk of text?? Third-party app calls crystal report (8.5) check form and may print hundreds of checks at a time. I can control the app a little bit -- but it is doing a LOT of processing to call this report, so I have to work with it.

I tried creating a subreport with different printing properties -- there is a function under postscript options that does this properly. However, when I do this in a subreport, Crystal crashes.

I thought that surely *someone* had run into this before, but I haven't found anything! Any ideas?

 

[Durango122]

hi
try rotating your text 270 degree



Durango122

 

[jenlion]

Thanks for reply... that just sets it on edge vertically though.

To picture what it needs to be, imagine an address on a regular 8.5x11 paper. The fold the bottom third up and imagine a window in the middle of the page. The address meets the window.

That address would need to look correct through the window, but since that bottom third was flipped up, it's now upside down. And because it's displaying *though* the window, it's backwards.

Unfortunately the paper is preprinted, with return address and all on the back side of the check stock, so upside-down is out of my hands.