Illustrator - Rotation of the Artboard
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.
Markus Steinschaden
shared this idea
Rotate canvas story has been added to backlog. We will be picking it up shortly.
Thanks,
Yogesh
200 comments
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Anonymous
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You heard right. Affinity Designer has this feature. I recently made the switch. Wish I would have done it a lot sooner!
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Kim Wilson commented
Please hurry with this feature! I hear affinity has it. will probably switch soon as it would be vastly helpful for drawing uniform brush strokes in different directions with a tablet!!!
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Anonymous
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It seems Adobe just doesn't care. There are a myriad of reason why this is a must have feature... This has been one of the top posts for ages on the feature request board and it just seems to get blatantly ignored.
"How can we improve Illustrator? Vote for or share a new idea."
Well how about you pick up this high voted backlogged request after more than two years? This would be the most desired improvement on my part for Illustrator and one that would be super nice to have on a daily basis.
Even if it was just in 90 degree increments it would be a big step up.
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david lincoln brooks
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Yes, it would be swell to be able to rotate an entire artboard, the way Photoshop permits it. Especially useful when you are using the Pencil Tool to draw a shape freehand with your Wacom tablet. As another artist here puts it, some strokes are easier to make when you've positioned your "canvas" (artboard) in a comfortable way.
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Ivan Berka
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Hi, for drawing vector paths based on a bitmap images, the ability to rotate artboard (similar way to Photoshop) is a prerequisite for comfortable work. Please venture into the developers’ lab and make this the Illustrator’s feature soon.
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Anonymous
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Haha thanks for the update Adobe! Always making customer service a priority! Affinity Designer ALREADY HAS THIS FEATURE
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Anonymous
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Just checking in on the progress on this topic - after over 2 years. It would be really helpful thing to have added, especially when applying artwork on packaging.
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Anonymous
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"Picking it up shortly" should be Adobe's tagline. Just like "free beer tomorrow". We get it Adobe.
Affinity Designer already has this feature. Pathetic.
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Margaret Trauth
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Hey are y’all ever going to add this one simple transformation to the matrix you’re already applying every time you draw the preview window? It’s three and a half years since you were gonna “pick it up shortly”.
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Paul S
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Adobe does not have the honesty to admit frankly that their Illustrator software is so badly designed at the base, that today they do NOT have the technical possibility to implement this rotate artboard function, however essential to illustrators... They still prefer to appear for people contemptuous of the needs of their customers...
OK Adobe... But in that event, provide at least your customers with another tool, even basic, which can allow us to draw freely in vector mode with a drawing tablet ... A mini software with just the functions necessary for drawing AND THEREFORE the possibility to rotate the artboard.
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Anonymous
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November 21, 2017 "Picking it up shortly".
It's January 2020.
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Dalton Crosthwait
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Added to backlog 2 years ago? Yikes.
I'd switch 100% to Affinity (better pricing model, more responsive to user feedback, etc.) if I could move my entire team over as well. Unfortunately I'm stuck crossing my fingers that Adobe will implement this very basic functionality.
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Anonymous
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That's weird, they have this feature currently in photoshop. Affinity designer is capable. Figure it out Adobe.
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Tyler
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I was talking with a a well known designer on instagram. He said he personally asked adobe and they said they stopped trying to develop rotation because it doesn't work with the photoshop raster effects.
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Anonymous
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Whats up Adobe? You take the rest of the year off for holidays?
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Jack
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If I'm a developer working for adobe I would be embarrassed that Affinity Designer somehow figured out how to implement this feature. Shame on you adobe.
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Paul S
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"Seriously who cares about a mobile version of illustrator. " ...Yes, indeed ! The only explanation I found for such nonsense is that the Illustrator code must be so badly written that it is probably impossible for Adobe developers to easily implement this basic function of artboard rotation... Providing a mobile version of this non-ergonomic software is perhaps the only way Adobe engineers have found to allow illustrators to finally beiing able to rotate their artboard.. by rotating the whole device ! What a pragmatism!
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Anonymous
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Seriously who cares about a mobile version of illustrator. It certainly shouldn't take priority over your desktop application! IMPLEMENT ROTATE ART BOARD
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Hans
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Adobe come on. You have added slicing and other web/digital functions to illustrator that no one is using, but not rotate art board? This is crucial for illustration, typography and packaging design and Illustrator is the number one tool for that kind of work. This is more important than creating a mobile version of illustrator.
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Anonymous
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Hey Adobe I don't design on any mobile apps along with thousands of other designers. How are we forgetting the original client base that only uses desktop applications? And, if the desktop applications are going to be secondary focus how about decreasing the monthly rate vs raising it?