Can’t make text vertical

[Victor_Lawrencw]

To put simply, it seems Krita can’t write the standard Japanese manga text format. The one used for making manga(tategaki). If there’s any options for that, I’ll be delighted for a solution. Thanks for reading

[Michelist]

Hello @Victor_Lawrencw, and welcome to the forum!

Maybe you are interested to know that Krita’s Text Tool is renewed, and things like vertical text from LTR or RTL are part of this rewrite. The text above was created using the Krita nightly version 5.3.0-prealpha (git bb04844), for instance.

Here you can find the topic where this is discussed:

Text Tool Thread

Hey everyone, The text layout rewrite branch finally got merged! You should be able to test it in the next nightly build. Keep in mind that the text tool by itself has not changed just yet. Similarly, if you find bugs, please report them to bugs.kde.org under the product Krita, in the component Text. State of Text I’ve spend the last year completely rewriting the text layout code, with a technical blogpost here. This code handles things like taking a text with markup, selecting and loading fon…

Michelist

[Victor_Lawrencw]

I just downloaded the recent version of Krita, does it have to be nightly build to be able to use it? In the newest version, it doesn’t have that option

[Michelist]

@Victor_Lawrencw

does it have to be nightly build to be able to use it?

Yes. You can get it from here:

https://cdn.kde.org/ci-builds/graphics/krita/master/

Michelist

[Victor_Lawrencw]

Thanks for the quick response.

[Victor_Lawrencw]

Sorry for the disturbance. Which one should I download from the list. I’m using windows. I mean are they all nightly build?

[Michelist]

Currently, it is this one:

https://cdn.kde.org/ci-builds/graphics/krita/master/windows/krita-x64-5.3.0-prealpha-94c2d5dd.zip

So always select the lowest option for future downloads.

Michelist

[Victor_Lawrencw]

Thanks, bro.
You made my day.

[Michelist]

You are welcome!

Michelist