Rotate whole document in Illustrator

Question

How do I rotate a whole document (I guess you'd say artboard?) in Illustrator. The building map layout document that was created in Illustrator needs to be viewed upside down and I need to rotate the whole document 90 degrees. I know how easily to do this in Photoshop, but not Illustrator.  Thank you!

Jacob Bugge · Accepted Answer

Angela,Some 12 or 15 years ago there was a joke in the Windows forum (before the Mac/Windows merge in 2009) about rotating the monitor.A maybe silly question, but 90 degrees only lays the document on the side rather than upside down, is it 180 degrees?And another one, what about the text?How about creating a nostroke/nofill rectangle the size of the Artboard (you may ClickDrag it with the Rectangle Tool (Smart Guides are your friends saying when you are within snapping doistance of opposite corners, then select everything and rotate as desired? You can rotate back again if desired.

Luke Jennings · Answer

I wanted to mention one thing, I believe effects applied to objects will "remember" the original orientation of the object, so as the object is rotated, the effect is not. The work-around is to create a new file, place the original file as a link, and rotate the link.

Also, for the rare occasion you need to view type in one orientation and print in the opposite orientation, you can create separate layers and include the layers in your saved PDF, then in Acrobat, set the layer properties to view but not print and print but not view, respectively.

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