Rotation of the Canvas
Like in Photoshop it would be great if an Artist could rotate the artboard/canvas in Illustrator. If you draw a line from left to right it's never the same stroke as from up to down.
Hi friends! I have some great news for your today. Rotate View (Canvas) feature is available in Illustrator 25.3 (Desktop) now. Thank you all for your feedback which helped us shape up this feature.
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Davey M commented
BUG/OR FEATURE REQUEST: When you rotate view, and select an object, line, etc, the bounding box doesn't rotate with rotate view. The bounding box remains relative to the normal view. It would help to be able to rotate view and then resize and object with the bounding box in the new rotated view. Thank you!
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VincentvE commented
BUG: Adding to Davey. Mousewheel zoom (alt+wheel) is also quirky. As is 'fit artboard to window'..
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Davey M commented
BUG: When you rotate view, then use the zoom tool performing a click and drag, it seems to zoom in on random spots. I think it's zooming in on the relative location of the screen prior to rotating the view. I switched back to a non-rotated view to double check and it zoomed normal again to the spot where I placed the zoom tool and clicked and dragged to zoom in.
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Davey M commented
BUG: When you rotate view, and select lines, sometimes it selects all lines but only shows some of the lines selected. I attached a screenshot of how it looks. The two red lines on the left are selected, even though they don't appear to be. You can see they disappear when I delete them in the other screenshot. There appears to be an anchor point selected though where those two lines are on the left.
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Davey M commented
BUG: When you rotate view, and use the Selection tool and drag a box around some line strokes, it doesn't grab all of the lines every time, even if you give it a wide birth going past the line.
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Rotate Canvas is coming soon, hopefully with presets that will allow you to turn a view at 90°
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Cesare commented
Can you make this function available via the 'crown' on Logitech's Craft keyboard?
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Justin Whitehouse commented
would be awesome if this could be a function of Surface Dial
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Anonymous commented
Hello I wonder when will this feature be available as an regular update instead of beta, is it possible to know?
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Anonymous commented
Tony, all great suggestions! I am thoroughly enjoying this rotation functionality!
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Tony commented
Hello, thank you for adding me to the 25.3 Beta! The functionality is excellent!
I notice it seems to really take advantage of the GPU as it is super smooth, while rotating the view using the CPU is very sluggish.
Here are a things I think are missing:
- Double-Clicking the Rotate View tool icon should reset the view
- Shift-Click during rotation should Hard-Stop at rotation 45 degree increments
- Pressing "Enter" should bring up dialog box where we can set specific angle for the rotation.Otherwise, it's great. I'm loving it so far!
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People not seeing 25.3 Beta that has Rotate Canvas, please send me your Adobe IDs. I will enable access. Send it to kotwal at Adobe.com.
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Tony commented
Similar to other folks, I downloaded the Beta available in Creative Cloud app and it is version 24.3 (24.3 52@205569 (64-Bit))
Rotate View does not seem to be an option. Is the newest beta build only available to certain users?
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Neal commented
Hello again Avinash,
Sorry but I don't have the option to install the Beta 2021 version of Illustrator from my CC desktop app, only the version which is older than my public release version?
In case it makes a difference I am in the UK running on a Mac with MacOS 11 (Big Sur).
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Ryder Booth commented
Using a Wacom Cintiq pro.
As a user I would like to be able to use the twist gesture to rotate the canvas. -
Margaret Trauth commented
YAYYYYYYYYYYYYY
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Elayne commented
Nice!! I was waiting for it for some time and I will test it and contribute with whatever I can.
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Glen Charles Rowell commented
Is there a way to rotate the canvas without moving objects as well? It would be very useful when we wanna switch from portrait to landscape or landscape to portrait.
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Magnus Crawford commented
Same here... I just did the update today, March 10 of 2021 and looked in the beta section. Several apps there but no Illustrator in the list. Version installed became 25.2.1
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Guillaume commented
Can't see anything about Illustrator in beta here :