DKGroup Posted October 17, 2017 Share Posted October 17, 2017 Hi! I lost my Adobe Illustrator from my other computer and had to start over so here I am with Affinity Design. I recently downloaded AD and have been messing around with it lately - I really like it! When I was working with Illustrator, I used to do majority of my designs in Landscape mode, rarely portait (although I will be doing more Portrait for Grade UI Kit!). I have been rotating the artboard but it's getting annoying each time - is there a way I could quickly select Portrait or Landscape mode for a specific artboard? Another side question - I really liked the visual assistance (distance, connecting at exact same anchor spot, middle part of the line, middle alignment of artboard, aligning, etc.) in the Illustrator and I do see it every now & then in AD, but just not as often as it was in AI. Is there a way to change this to increase assistance? Any helpful tips/tricks would be very much appreciated and looking forward to getting better & perfecting my skills with AD! Thank you, Dalton Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Lee D Posted October 18, 2017 Staff Share Posted October 18, 2017 Hi Dalton, Welcome to the forums. Once an Artboard has been selected you can rotate by simply clicking View > Transform > Rotate Left/Right. You also have the option of setting up custom keyboard shortcuts for these commands in Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts > Draw > Layer. Check the Snapping Manager dropdown to see which options are currently enabled, the show snapping candidates will highlight with a purple line the objects that you can snap to, see this video tutorial for more information. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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