![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I am working as a graphic designer for more than 10 years and making illustrations for a national newspaper sometimes and this setting is helpful for me. Video of the Day Step 2 Switch artboard orientation to rotate artboard dimensions. Select the listing for the artboard you want to change. Image Credit: Image courtesy Adobe Systems Open the 'Window' menu and choose 'Artboards' to reveal the Artboards panel. The entire world may not be using illustrator exactly the same way with you. Step 1 Select and modify artboards in the Artboards panel. some people may be working with graphic tablets, may be with large touchscreens, may be designing complex graphics or artworks that contains vertical and horizontal text objects etc. Changing orientation is not for changing line. My adding was for those.Ĭhanging from Landscape to Portrait won't make your line change from horizontal to vertical. I know a lot of user who does not know to change orientation of artboard in illustrator after once opened the document. You see, some people feel problem about orientation of artboard. If you draw a line from left to right it's never the same stroke as from up to down." in forum, same issue. Not even for new users.Ī user told so: " Like in Photoshop it would be great if an Artist could rotate the artboard/canvas in Illustrator. That setting has really nothing to do with rotation. After, you can pick the orientation, H or V. File > Document Setup > (Upper right) Edit Artboard. If you 'draw' in Illustrator those elements are pixel-independent and I would definitely want to rotate the artwork, not just artBOARD, as the original poster asks.įor new users, afterall, there is a way to restricted rotate, (orientation of) artboards. In Photoshop this of course can be a problem because changing the orientation of pixels re-renders the artwork.īut in AI not so as far as native objects. Perhaps there is some instance where this is so with placed objects but there are no native AI objects that can't be edited regardless of what transformation is put upon them - including native Photoshop effects. This statement would seem to indicate that rotating once editable objects would force them to render and become uneditable. You state "but aside from getting you in all kinds of trouble once they are converted to tons of semi-transparent objects their uses are limited". One simple example of the advantage would be editing a word cloud where the text objects are orthogonal so it would be very nice to be able to rotate the entire artwork (not just the artboard, which one can currently do) at a different angle.but aside from getting you in all kinds of trouble once they are converted to tons of semi-transparent objects their uses are limited The request is to be able to change the orientation angle of the artwork. Perhaps you don't understand the request. ![]()
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