a question for rob-xar - why still no rotate document view ?
unless it has been slipped under the radar and I missed it, XDA still has no rotate document view
updating a tri-fold made some years ago [before affinity publisher] I was reminded how difficult it is to edit something when it is upside down, and how unsatisfactory it is to rotate objects that are placed in final position only to have to rotate them back afterwards; so 1990s
I can't think of another graphics program worth having that does not allow document/canvas rotate - can you ?
Re: a question for rob-xar - why still no rotate document view ?
+1 for this feature I know I miss it.
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Re: a question for rob-xar - why still no rotate document view ?
Yes, I know this is not the answer.
FLIP
- Page & Layer gallery > make all Layers/Objects visible + make all Layers/Objects editable
- Selector Tool > Select All
- Flip horizontally + Flip vertically
- Page & Layer gallery > revert Layers/Objects selections
--Normal Xara Activity
(FLIP)
I could write an AutoHotKey script so it becomes a single keypress.
Acorn
Re: a question for rob-xar - why still no rotate document view ?
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Acorn
Yes, I know this is not the answer.
.. and then again there are times when some things are 'right way up' and some things 'wrong way up' [that being the right way up for them] on the same page
select all no good then [and it does not always select everything, a known issue]
it can become very complicated; rotate view would avoid having to do any displacement, not to mention being a lot quicker
Re: a question for rob-xar - why still no rotate document view ?
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handrawn
and it does not always select everything, a known issue
Apologies for the Thread hijack handrawn (and Xara, if you ever respond).
Page and Pasteboard items need to be unlocked directly, for good reason.
Once done everything rotates.
What have I missed?
Acorn
Re: a question for rob-xar - why still no rotate document view ?
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Acorn
Apologies for the Thread hijack handrawn
you did not hijack - you addressed a different issue, but you covered that by saying you knew it was not the answer, so more of an aside than off topic
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Page and Pasteboard items need to be unlocked directly, for good reason.
Once done everything rotates.
What have I missed?
Acorn
the whole point is not to have to rotate objects that are in position only to have rotate them back afterwards, which is unecessary work and an oportunity for slip-ups
and as I said in my last post your option only works if the whole page is 'upside down' - this is not always the case, in print or in art, though I dare say maybe unusual on a website...
tri-fold was just a handy example...
Re: a question for rob-xar - why still no rotate document view ?
the select all function does not always select everything that it should... that is the case whenever you use it... sometimes it misses things out