unintentional rotation of artboard

[duch_suva]

i work in Affinity Photo using a trackpad, and very often I unintentionally rotate my artboard with some gesture

is there a way to quickly center it back?

[h_d]

View - Reset Rotation should do the trick.

If you want to turn it off, go to Preferences - Tools - Enable canvas rotation with trackpad and uncheck it.

Cheers,

H

[duch_suva]

thanks!!

[arlene.con]

Thank you so much for this info! I was getting super annoyed of having to reset the rotation every 5 minutes.

[Erik Bjørn Pedersen]

Thanks, h_d.  I'm very new to the Affinity suite, having switched from the ridiculously overpriced Adobe suite, and am still learning how to use the Affinity programs efficiently.

On several occasions I've had the same unintentional problem as duch_suva and arlene.con (totally unaware of what keystroke combination triggered the misbehaviour) and had been baffled about how to repair things afterwards. Since I'm apparently not the first person to deal with such an annoyance, might it not be a good idea for the Affinity programmers to enter a record of the rotation transform (whether accidental or intended) into the queue of actions that have been performed? That way a user could undo an accidental rotation with a simple command-Z. 

Kind regards, Erik

[R C-R]

6 hours ago, Erik Bjørn Pedersen said:

Since I'm apparently not the first person to deal with such an annoyance, might it not be a good idea for the Affinity programmers to enter a record of the rotation transform (whether accidental or intended) into the queue of actions that have been performed?

FWIW, there is no transform of the document, rotation or otherwise, when rotating with the trackpad because this only rotates the view of the canvas, not the document itself. (That's why Reset Rotation is on the View menu.)

The History panel only records actions that cause changes to the document, which is why, like zooming in or out, rotating the view is not recorded there. Similarly, since these actions do not change the document in any way, they are not saved with the document so the next time the document is opened, it reverts to the default unrotated view.

[Dennison]

Accidentally rotated the Artboard this morning - thanks, have turned off in Preferences.

 

What was strange was that after righting the Artboard the drawing was "wonky" - see screenshot.  Seems like the drawing rotated and then didn't rotate back, if that makes sense.

 

Make 1000s of drawings. Love the app, thank you.

[walt.farrell]

2 hours ago, Dennison said:

see screenshot

Something seems wrong with your screenshots; I see them as all black.

[Pšenda]

1 hour ago, walt.farrell said:

I see them as all black.

I see them fine - but three times 🙂

[R C-R]

7 minutes ago, Pšenda said:

I see them fine - but three times 🙂

Same for me.

[DesignerMim by Miriam]

Totally delayed, but I've just been struggling with the in AD2! Thanks for all above for the quick explanation and solves. I'm sorted and learnt something. Thanks all

[JP3]

this is so helpful thank you!