Mirror image fonts?

[Andrews, A.S.]

Hi

I need to present text in mirror image. As there is a lot of it I
don't really want to be creating lots of bitmaps and mirroring them.
Is there a way I can create/add a mirrored font, or a better way of
doing it?

Thanks,

Tony Andrews,
Principal Computer Officer
School of Psychology
University of Leicester.

[David K McFarlane]

Tony,

> I need to present text in mirror image. As there is a lot of it I
> don't really want to be creating lots of bitmaps and mirroring them.
> Is there a way I can create/add a mirrored font, or a better way of
> doing it?

Several times we have needed to do this, and we have never found a solution.
In some cases, as you say above, we just had to convert to images and mirror
reverse those. However, this was going to be a major issue with our latest
fMRI task presentation system -- since the subject views the video through a
mirror, *every* stimulus in *every* experiment starts out mirror reversed.
In that case we spent a few hundred dollars on a video conversion box that
does mirror reversing for us, so everything comes out right (these gizmos
are designed for use in teleprompting, and are available at places like
BlackBox.com).

Sorry I couldn't be more help, let's hope someone has a better solution.

-- David McFarlane, Systems Designer
Dept. Psychology, Michigan State University

[J. Scott Saults]

I was curious and did some searching. I found the following site that
APPEARS to list some mirror image fonts:
\http://www.fonts.com/findfonts/mondosearchresults.htm?st=12&kid=mirror
Also, there's a very old Mac program called Fontographer that was
able to manipulate and thereby create custom fonts. Surely there are
some newer programs that can do the same kind of thing, although I
don't actually know of any.

Good luck and keep us posted. Chances are some of us will need
something like this, sooner or later.

Regards,
Scott Saults