Writing upside down

If you're sending it in digitally you wouldn't want to send it as a photoshop or illustrator file. that would be one massive headache for the publisher. Send it as a single, normal file, then attach a pictures of samples you printed out demonstrating how the book would work.
 
There were a number of books published like this; essentially it's two quite separate books bound into one cover.
Therefore bookbinders know how to do it, if you can explain clearly uenough what you want.
 
Marky Lazer said:
I'm thinking about a project where I need some pages normal and some upside-down. Does anyone of that is possible in Microsoft Word, and if so, how to do it? And, if not, any program that CAN do it?

Cheers!
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Print it out and turn the required pages through 180 degrees. :)
 
Ummm yes, I've seen the 3 Billy Goats Gruff done that way: traditional version/troll's version.

Explanation here Upside-Down Printing (paintshop pro is not as pricey as some).

For a tedious way of doing it Powerpoint it.
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Alternatively look for an upside down font and import it into your fonts. Select, highlight and transform font. The problem there would be that they would need the font to view it in their program.

Save it as a webpage within word and you should have some stupidly simple script command that will do it.

The final problem is do they accept word submissions(bugs and stuff ..as many don't).
 
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I'd say you're making a mistake with this. The book reader can quickly flip the book over, but what is the publisher going to do?
(Ans: spike your MS and move on to something readable and not so cute)

Like the previous poster said...send a normal MS...two different ones perhaps, with a note explaining your purpose.

Gimmicks are NOT the way to make friends with people who have to read stuff all day.
 
Um, I don't think the publisher would be very put out. Many magazines come with pages upside down, I have seen books with one half up and one half down, esp. in the classics for children, where they put two condensed books in one.

Its the same publishing process, people. Just the words are upside down. Its not complex. I can do it in LULU if I want too.

The problem is the writer getting the formating upside down on specific pages and not the entire doc. I have no idea how to do that, but it won't hurt the publisher any.
 
Wait a minute, I thought we were talking about submitting this to a publisher to try to get it accepted. In which case it won't be if it's weird like that.

If it's a POD thing, ask the publisher how to do it. No problem.
 
Marky Lazer said:
I'm thinking about a project where I need some pages normal and some upside-down. Does anyone of that is possible in Microsoft Word, and if so, how to do it? And, if not, any program that CAN do it?

Cheers!
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lin robinson said:
Wait a minute, I thought we were talking about submitting this to a publisher to try to get it accepted. In which case it won't be if it's weird like that.

If it's a POD thing, ask the publisher how to do it. No problem.
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Thats what people started talking about, but that is not the question or concern. I don't think Marks concerned with publishing. He just wants to know how to do it on his computer. Which is nice to know before you self pub. or trad. pub. so he can see what the reader will see before either editor, publisher, or reader sees it.
 
He said somewhere that he intended to send it to a publisher, electronically.

I bet you could do it with macros. But I have no idea how.
 
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Fun Font + PDF ??

I needed some weird fonts for silly props in a story. A bunch of scrolls had to be 'Nah, can't read' to first glance, followed by a double-take and giggles...

Eventually, I found a free 'fun font' that looked *uncannily* Arabic, but was just a 'hyper-florid italic'.

Okay, Notepad can't right-justify, but I'd fix that in final-draft's Word-- Assuming it gets finished !!!

Along the way, Google found a veritable zoo: bar-codes, Morse Code, inverted, reversed and/or 'flipped' fonts...

Can you get a utility to save from Word as PDF ?? That way, IIRC, fonts are embedded...
 
ctrl + printscreen
paste into paint
ctrl + r
rotate by 180
save
insert as picture in word
resize
hey presto!
 
The only ways I know of to write upside down have already been posted, but if you are sending the MS electronically how is the publisher going to read the upside down part?
 
It seems to me that it would be more of a marketing thing done by the publisher then a decision made by the writer. Or are you self-publishing?

If you're trying to sign with an agent or editor, don't do gimmicky. Just write. If you have an idea for something like this that you really, really want to sell them on, then describe it in a proposal.
 
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