Bug 114472 - Support vertical layouts in Draw
Summary: Support vertical layouts in Draw
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Draw (show other bugs)
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6.0.0.0.beta2
Hardware: All All
: medium enhancement
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Blocks: Vertical-Text
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Reported: 2017-12-14 17:35 UTC by Volga
Modified: 2025-03-07 14:28 UTC (History)
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Description Volga 2017-12-14 17:35:18 UTC
Description:
The vertical layouts ofted used in East Asian texts, and the usage appearing not only in document but also in images, see:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Chinese_writing
Several scripts as Mongolian also requiring top-to-bottom, left-to-right directionality if they are inserted in the image.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Monggul-Ulus.png the text is transliterated as mongɣul ulus
LibreOffice Draw looks no way to select vertical text directions. However Inkscape has already implemented both two directionalies, thus LO Draw need also implement these two directionalies for users’ needs and interoperateabilily.

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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:57.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/57.0
Comment 1 Buovjaga 2017-12-25 11:04:08 UTC
Yep, let's set to NEW
Comment 2 Volga 2021-06-14 05:38:28 UTC
The same functionality was also available in GIMP.
Comment 3 Fiable.biz 2025-03-07 13:57:23 UTC
In Tools → Customize → Toolbars: Search, if you search "vertical", you'll find a "Vertical text" commande you can place in the menu you want thanks to the big arrows in the middel of the window. Then click on "OK". Then clicking on the button you just added enables you to draw a rectangle inside which you can write vertically. If this is what you wanted, I suggest you close this bug as "fixed".
Comment 4 Volga 2025-03-07 14:28:51 UTC
Yes, I can see these commands in the Customize dialog, and I added it into toolbar. But it has limitations, especially it doesn't support left-to-right vertical writing.