nwe rotation in pro+

[handrawn]

in previous versions I could set a rotation point for bitmaps

this no longer seems to work in pro+

am I doing sopmething wrong?

[gwpriester]

Not sure what you mean by this, Steve. There is a new behavior that somehow places the center or rotation based on something that I am not able to wrap my mind around and that you can undo by clicking the selected object again.

Are you taking about the Fill Tool rotation?

[handrawn]

yes that new behaviour that you mention [not fill]: it works fine for vector objects, but I cannot get it to work for a bitmap - a bitmap just spins on its own axis regardless of where the rotation point is

[Acorn]

yes that new behaviour that you mention [not fill]: it works fine for vector objects, but I cannot get it to work for a bitmap - a bitmap just spins on its own axis regardless of where the rotation point is

You may be trying with the Photo Tool.

It is done with the Select Tool:



Acorn

[handrawn]

I am in the selector tool

I create a quickshape I click on the selector tool infor bar button - set origin position - and I get a rotation point that I can move so that the quickshape rotates around this

the position of the rotation point persists, which is how I understood it would work, and is good.... a make more quicjkshapes, they rotate around the rotation point as set

but this operation does not work for me with a bitmap - it will not rotate around the point so set, it just rotates around it's own centre; and I cannot get a rotation point to apperar on a bitmap when resetting with the infobar button

[handrawn]

ok cracked it, I think

the bitmap will only so rotate if you use the info bar to do the rotation - it will not rotate around the rotation centre point using it's handle, unlike the quickshapes, and unlike the previous versions

from my point of view that is a loss of functionality, my bitmaps are mostly drawing elements, not photos

I can get round it up to a point by grouping with a shape and releasing when done - but that is tiresome and clumsy