Arrow keys and ruler guides not adjusted when using Rotate View

Question

Love the feature that you finally can rotate the view in Illustrator. However – after rotating the view, for example 90 degrees, the arrow keys are not adjusted to fit this particular view. When I hit the up arrow key, things move to the right instead and so on. Same with ruler guides, try to make a horizontal guide and it makes a vertical one. The arrow keys thing is the worst though. Am I the only one thinking this is hopeless? When rotating the view in Indesign this is not a problem.

Kurt Gold · Answer

I'd rather not completely agree with your postulations, jcederholm.

You may be somehow right if we are only talking about full 90°-rotations, but absolutely not if there are other arbitrary rotations which might be useful as well. In those cases strictly orienting the arrow keys toward the actual rotation of the coordinate system may have way more benefits than a short-sighted approach of absolute horizontal and vertical thinking.

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