How To Write Upside Down On a Computer

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I am not sure when it would be useful to be able to write upside down on a computer, but should you wish to do so, here’s how you do it:

  1. Go to http://www.writeupsidedown.net/

  2. Type your text into the uppermost box

  3. Select the text in the bottom box and copy it to the clipboard (Ctrl C on a PC)

  4. Paste the text into your document or web page.

Easy!

This is what it looks like (based on the above text):

¡ʎsɐǝ
˙ǝƃɐd qǝʍ ɹo ʇuǝɯnɔop ɹnoʎ oʇuı ʇxǝʇ ǝɥʇ ǝʇsɐd ㄣ
(ɔd ɐ uo ɔ ןɹʇɔ) pɹɐoqdıןɔ ǝɥʇ oʇ ʇı ʎdoɔ puɐ xoq ɯoʇʇoq ǝɥʇ uı ʇxǝʇ ǝɥʇ ʇɔǝןǝs ᄐ
xoq ʇsoɯɹǝddn ǝɥʇ oʇuı ʇxǝʇ ɹnoʎ ǝdʎʇ ᄅ
/ʇǝu˙uʍopǝpısdnǝʇıɹʍ˙ʍʍʍ//:dʇʇɥ oʇ oƃ ⇂
:ʇı op noʎ ʍoɥ s’ǝɹǝɥ 'os op oʇ ɥsıʍ noʎ pןnoɥs ʇnq 'ɹǝʇndɯoɔ ɐ uo uʍop ǝpısdn ǝʇıɹʍ oʇ ǝןqɐ ǝq oʇ ןnɟǝsn ǝq pןnoʍ ʇı uǝɥʍ ǝɹns ʇou ɯɐ ı

Some uses for this facility could be:

  • Book covers.

  • Novelty items.

  • Special effects in a story.

  • Greetings cards.

Yes, you could simply enter the text in the usual way, and then turn the page upside down, but that doesn't allow you to mix normal and upside-down text in the same document.

An alternative might be to create a document in the normal manner, and then scan it into the computer as an image, which you can then insert upside-down into an ordinary document. However, not only is that a whole ton of hassle, the quality of the text in the picture will almost certainly not be as clear as the ordinary text.

So, it looks like for producing upside-down text on a computer, that upside-down website is your best bet.

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