Origin adjustment

[Dazzer_21]

For reasons I can't fathom, the corner orientation can't be adjusted - ie, so I can't place the 0,0 (x,y) anywhere on the screen. The top left corner area remains unselectable. InDesign, Illustrator etc do it, but not Animate. Version 20.0. Any ideas? Thanks. 

[ClayUUID]

I can honestly say this is the first time in my life I've ever seen anyone wanting to do that in Flash/Animate. No, you cannot customize Animate's coordinate system. That would be bonkers.

I suppose the closest you could come to that is working inside a movieclip. Since movieclips have their own local coordinate system, you could then position the movieclip wherever you want on the stage, with its center point becoming the local 0,0.

[Dazzer_21]

Why bonkers? There are rulers on each side, the method exists in other CC apps, why not include the feature? I've been given 120 InDesign files by a designer that I need to 100% mimic in terms of animating their static layouts over 30 seconds each. It's been laid out on a 1080x1920 pixel page from which I can deduce the size of each item perfectly, but in terms of its resizing in Animate, I have to drag the item up to the top left-hand corner each and every time to adjust it - repositioning the origin would make it MUCH simpler an quicker as I can dump an item anywhere on the page, reposition the 0,0 and it's done in two seconds - I've got about 3000 elements I'm working with! With InDesign, I can adjust the ruler measurements in whatever way I wish - with Animate, it's a nag that I can't do the same! Taking each and every page, creating a bitmap of it and placing into Animate as a template to overlay would be just as much, if not more, of an effort when compared to using a simple feature that will shave hours off the job!

[ClayUUID]

Because Animate isn't a desktop publishing tool, it's an animation tool. 99% of the time the coordinate system is an irrelevant detail. What you're trying to do is an edge case.

I'd try to offer more specific advice to optimize your process, but frankly I can't figure out from your description what you're actually doing.

[n. tilcheff]

Hi mate,

Clay has said it all.

It would be similar if you go to the InDesign forum and say that it makes absolutely no sense that you cannot create a TV series in InDesign, because it is a piece of software and you can do so in Animate, so why not in InDesign.

Work inside a symbol container and you will be able to control where exactly your 0,0 is.

To better understand symbol registration, read this article:  http://flash-powertools.com/understanding-symbol-registration/