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Rotate Canvas & Smooth Pan While Drawing

Forum|Forum|1 year ago
March 21, 2025
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Hi Adobe team,

Could you please consider adding the ability to rotate the canvas in Illustrator the same way it's available in Photoshop? It's incredibly useful for drawing and refining shapes from different angles.

Also, it would be great if we could pan the canvas using the Spacebar while actively drawing, just like in Photoshop. Currently, this breaks the flow and makes precise drawing more difficult.

Thanks a lot for considering these improvements!

Daniel

Feature request

Correct answer Monika Gause

You can rotate the canvas in Illustrator. Exactly what would you need?

Please consider putting your feature requests to https://illustrator.uservoice.com

Otherwise the engineers will not be able to read them.

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Correct answer

Community Expert

You can rotate the canvas in Illustrator. Exactly what would you need?

Please consider putting your feature requests to https://illustrator.uservoice.com

Otherwise the engineers will not be able to read them.

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Inspiring

I can see it now with Shift + H — that’s great!
I didn’t know about that shortcut, thank you so much!

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Community Expert

Glad you could solve it. Incase you are using a trackpad, this also works for it. Can be turned on/off in Preferences > General