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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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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Emily commented
Hard to believe we can't rotate the view. I'm in package design and I have to work on up-side-down and sideways panels all the time--super frustrating!
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Anonymous commented
Would absolutely be a great feature. Lets just hope they implement it within our lifetime.
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Leonardo Nascimento commented
Nice. It is a pain trying to hand draw something. Rotate Canvas will be really great feature.
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Anonymous commented
Yogesh, it's been almost a year since we've heard "picking it up shortly"...
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Isabelle commented
This would be really handy, I hope Illustrator 22.0.3 has this feature! it's crazy that you can't do this...
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Andrew Hainen commented
zzzzzzz.....any updates? Nope? Seems like Adobe.
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Lourens commented
I illustrate using a tablet, and it's extremely difficult to draw horizontal lines in Illustrator. If the view can be rotated, like in Photoshop, it would be a huge advantage.
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Defectiv commented
As I do a lot of packaging design I agree... This function is just... Its just unbelievable it doesn't exist yet...
Its been nearly 10 months since the comment it would be picked up shortly. I hope it gets picked up. Its just so bizarre its still not possible, its one of the things that should have been in AI years ago.
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Steve commented
I get AI files from a customer with a lot of text. Landscape text comes in portrait. Getting a sore neck reading sideways.
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Tan Choon Hong commented
A keyboard shortcut to rotate canvas every 30 degrees would be a bonus feature. Clip Studio Paint has something like it.
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Anonymous commented
Really looking forward! Are there any updates?
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sbrich commented
Rotation yes please, and preferably married to a toggle key so you can quickly rotate canvas clockwise and counter-clockwise. Like how holding down space enables drag mode, similar feature but perhaps put on a different key or shift+space.
I would like it so that I can draw at an angle, this is how I draw lines on paper, rotate the pad when it is required.
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c w commented
yes, please! the ability to turn the dartboard allows for more accuracy using a tablet interface. it's kind of a common sense feature, in my eyes. I usually do most of my "illustrations" in PS, but today I am starting a project that needs crisp vector lines and I open illustrator to begin, only to learn that it's not a function here? isn't the name of this program Illustrator? ...because that's what I'm trying to do with my tethered Wacom tablet...a vector illustration.
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Michael commented
Would be super useful when doing layout in Illustrator with mixed orientation elements (such as box templates). Hopefully it will be added soon. Use it regularly in InDesign.
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Gordon commented
It's the reason I don't use Illustrator. It's ridiculous that Adobe still hasn't sorted this out yet.
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Jeff D commented
This is simple stuff. And yet...
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Orlando Alcober commented
Illustrator rotating canvass
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Anna commented
Come on, you guys. This would be huge!
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Zak commented
Davey, hopefully, you can wait. There have been no updates on this since Nov 2017. A sense of urgency and or customer service is not something Adobe excels at.
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Davey Morgan commented
I'm ready to upgrade from Illustrator CS6 and throw my money at Illustrator CC when the update is available! I can't wait! :) I'll be upgrading the same day the update is released. Thank you for your hard work on this feature!