Arrow keys and ruler guides not adjusted when using Rotate View

Forum|Forum|4 years ago
November 1, 2021
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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.

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Kurt Gold

Community Expert

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.

Ton Frederiks

Community Expert

You may want to mention it here:

https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/333657-illustrator-desktop-feature-requests/suggestions/19196641-illustrator-rotation-of-the-artboard

jcederholmAuthor

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Thanks, will definitely do that. I just wanted to know if it's supposed to be this way or if it's fixable in options/settings. But I guess that's not the case then?

jcederholmAuthor

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I can imagine that if you want to move an object to the left or right using the right or left arrow keys that you want the same to happen when the page is rotated 90 degrees instead of the current up and down.

Currently in Illustrator you need to set the constrain angle to -90 in the Preferences.

It would be nice to have an option to auto adjust the constrain angle when the page is rotated.

If I hit the left arrow key in a user interface, the selection should move to the left, regardless of what view you're currently in and what the original orentiation is. Anything else is just bad UX design. Period.

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