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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.
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Markus Steinschaden shared this idea  ·   ·  Flag idea as inappropriate…  ·  Admin →
Completed (Comments Open)  ·  AdminAvinash Singh Kotwal (Sr. Product Manager, Adobe Illustrator) responded  · 

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.

Please note: This update is currently only available in the following countries (India, Australia, Netherlands, Hong Kong, France, Germany, Canada, South Korea, UK, Italy) and will rollout globally over the next few weeks.
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  • Andrew commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    This is half-working. You can rotate the view, which is great, but now zooming using Alt + Scroll Wheel zooms relative to the un-rotated canvas, so it's less great. Any fix? Windows 10, CC 25.4.1
  • Lana commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I've turned this off but my canvas is now stuck at 5 degrees, EUGH how irritating!
  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    I scrolled down but the only thing I see is "trackpad gesture to rotate view".

    I don't have that anywhere in my preferences.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    CAN YOU PLEASE ADD AN OPTION TO TURN THIS OFF.

    I am constantly hitting it with my Wacom board. I see a lot of other people are having the same issue. I have no need for an Artboard rotation and it is extremely frustrating when it does it on its own.

  • AdminAvinash Singh Kotwal (Sr. Product Manager, Adobe Illustrator) commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Thanks Simon for sharing. Some of you had reported that it's too sensitive and you are rotating accidentally. The latest release 25.4 has an option to disable Trackpad Gestures. We will work towards refining the threshold but for now please use the option to disable it if it's coming in your way.

    Preferences > General: deselect "Trackpad Gesture to Rotate View".
  • Simon Bowland commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Latest version resolves this. Update to 25.4 and in Prefs > General, deselect "Trackpad Gesture to Rotate View".
  • SamW commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Please can you offer a way to lock the rotation. It's a great function IF you need it. But I don't, I only use ai on my laptop and can't seem to make it through simple tasks without accidentally rotating. Rotation is too close to zoom on trackpad. Please can you add a lock artboard function.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Scarlett, actually yes everyone does want this. Real simple, don't click the rotate tool. Problem solved.

  • Scarlett commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Please allow a way to disable the Rotate Canvas. Not everyone wants this! I don't! and I can't stop it from happening when I'm using my Wacom Tablet.

    Please include a setting to disable Auto Rotate. It's driving me crazy. Thank you!
  • Bob D (NL) commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    FINALLY ! something that prehaps resembles the UCS, autocad offers... if only it could rotate the orthogonal shift restrictions to align with the rotated view (!!!)
    in practice this feature sprung into operation without my explicit desire (albeit my command...) panning WITH shift . .. naughty boy! omg wtf didido #404
  • Mackenzie O. commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Hello! Is there a way to disable or lock this feature? I keep rotating everything by accident and it's happening so frequently it's affecting my productivity. The trackpad command is almost identical to zooming in/out making it very easy to trigger.
  • Ashley R. Drach commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Hi - is there an option to lock to prevent the rotation? It is extremely sensitive with magic trackpad. Thanks!
  • timtim commented  ·   ·  Flag as inappropriate

    Hey,

    how do i disable the rotation via trackpad? Happens by accident too often.

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