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The ScribeDOOR plugin (from the same people as the ME version) has a menu item “Reverse Layout”, for the conversion process, with options to:

  • Flip Text Frames
  • Flip Frames With Graphics Content
  • Flip Paths
  • Flip Objects Angles

and

  • Flip Graphics
  • Reverse Stories Direction
  • Change Table(s) Direction

as well as choosing which side the binding goes.

As well as the document-wide options, you can deal individually with graphics that have an influence on the text, like people pointing at something for example, or a sequence of pictures that “reads” left to right, which you might want to reverse.

Columns in a text frame also get flipped around, so that the columns correctly run right to left.

(Just don't get me started on what happens to opening and closing brackets where the direction of the text is “neutral” !)

This article was last modified on December 7, 2012

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