Orientation switching

[125Tumbleweed]

I created a drawing in Illustrator.  When I try to export it, the whole project has rotated 90 degrees.  Why?

[Ares Hovhannesyan]

Can you share a capture? How you export it? Export Assets?

[125Tumbleweed]

[Ton Frederiks]

You probably created the content while it was rotated.

Copy the content, create a horizontal artboard, paste the content and rotate it to fit the horizontal artboard,

[Ton Frederiks]

Looks like you have rotated your artboard. Look at the lower left corner of your document next to the zoom percentage.

[125Tumbleweed]

But I never intentionally rotated it.  And I want it to be at the "rotated" orientation.  How do I put it back and have it remain that way for printing or for exporting?

[Ton Frederiks · Accepted solution]

Use the ESCAPE key or reset the degrees to 0 or View > Reset Rotate View.

[125Tumbleweed]

I so appreciate your patience with me.  This is so frustrating.  I've never had this happen before.  My document is now at the orientation I want.  But I'm back to having it turned 90 degrees when I want to export it.  

[Monika Gause]

Can you please describe step by step?

You have turned the canvas to 0°? Then also rotated the artwork? And then it doesn't export correctly?

[125Tumbleweed]

Thank you so much for all your advice.  This was supposed to be a quick sketch for the irrigation specialist for a common client.  I ultimately exported with the vertical view.  Then opened the save jpeg and rotated that to the horizontal view.  Then I saved that.  Now it's where I want it.  Again, I thank you!!

[Ton Frederiks]

That is a workaround. Good to hear that worked. Next time start horizontal.