The setting is in DocProperties>Annotation Styles - for each annotation style, uncheck “Orient text towards reader when viewed from behind” in the Font section. You might then want to save these settings in your template file(s).
Otherwise, you can also use this script I developed (thanks @lowell) to do this on the fly to all the annotation styles in any document. Put it on a button or alias…
DisableAutoTextOrientation.py (173 Bytes)
The TextObject command outputs curves, surfaces or solids. They are not editable as text of course.
–Mitch