THIS HAS BEEN ASKED NUMEROUS TIMES FOR THE PAST 10 YEARS AND IT SO BLOODY FRUSTRATING THAT IT STILL HASN’T BEEN CHANGED!!!
I’M GOING TO TRY AGAIN IN ANOTHER POST
HEY LAYOUT DEVELOPMENT TEAM….FIX THIS!
WHEN FLIPPING IN LAYOUT, EVERYTHING (GRAPHICS, DIMENSIONS) FLIPS EXCEPT TEXT READS BACKWARDS AND TEXT WITH LEADERS GET ALL F’D UP.
I SEE NOT MANY REASONS, IF ANY, WHY THE TEXT WOULD WANT TO READ BACKWARDS.
PLEASE….PLEASE….PLEASE…..FIX THIS!!!
Turn off the all caps, you are shouting.
The shouting was intentional. I’ve tried typing at an reasonable volume for 10 years with this topic. Figured I’d try being loud.
It only brings to mind a certain demented president.
I may be that demented after having to cope with this for a decade.
Also, let’s focus on my use of caps, rather than the LO issue….very helpful.
I can think of a few legitimate uses of flipped text - for instance, printing on a clear sticker to be used on glass, so if this were implemented, it should be as an user option. I am all for more user options, but not for taking away something seen as a bug that others have seen as a feature. Taking advantage of view clipping for interior elevations as an example.
Yes it could be a feature request. I don’t mirror / flip plans enough for it to affect me though.
Sorry, but I can’t image any professional using Layout to create a sticker file for printing. Leave that work for proper software like Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop or Figma, Affinity or….. that has the quality and output required by printshops.
BUT, I don’t mind if the function remains. Just please give the option of text NOT reading backwards. There are a lot of professionals using Layout for Architectural drawings that NEED this feature. It’s actually gotten worse in LO 2025 and 2026. Now the leader’s text justification gets all wacky too.
I’m so very tired of asking for this.
