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August 3, 2026
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how to easily rotate an image around a circle in InDesign

  • August 3, 2026
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have been using InDesign pretty sure over 20+ years. before that I used Quark Xpress & recently wanted to rotate an image around a circle & remembered Quark had something called Super Step & Repeat. I’m not as fluent in Illustrator so hoping there’s a way to do that same thing as easily in InDesign as it was in Quark so many years ago. Thanks for helping me figure out how to do this task.

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    danielw42205661
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    August 4, 2026

    If this is what you mean, just select the rotate tool and option+click on the point you want it to rotate around, choose the degree of ration and select copy. Then repeat x times to make the full circle.

     

     

    Brad @ Roaring Mouse
    Community Expert
    Community Expert
    August 3, 2026

    Do you mean you want to repeat the image around a circle? No such ability as such that I know of in InDesign. Perhaps someone has made a script that does what you want.

    Illustrator would definitely be the easier way to do this.