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Hi everyone,

I’m working on iPad and i’m an AD beginner.

I’m just looking how to rotate my document (ont canvas)

I searched few topics in the forums but can’t find any answer...

Can anyone tell me how tom do il ?

 

Thank you!

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Ont canvas?? Do you mean Not canvas? If so, draw a selection box around ALL objects and use the top node handle to rotate the selected object on the canvas. You might find the PDF Help file for AD on iPad useful.  

 

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Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Affinity Design 1.10.5 
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Official Online iPad Help documents (multi-lingual) here: https://affinity.https://affinity.help/ 

 

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Hi DM1 !
Thank you so much for the PDF help files, i'll look to see if i find my solution.
Yes, i mean not the canvas. I would like to switch the document from landscape mode to portrait mode.
Is there a way to do it in AD, as it is possible in Affinity Photo?

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The easiest way is when setting up the initial/new document, choose Orientation, Landscape. Same as Affinity Photo.

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Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Affinity Design 1.10.5 
Affinity Publisher 2, Affinity Designer 2, Affinity Photo 2 and betas.

Official Online iPad Help documents (multi-lingual) here: https://affinity.https://affinity.help/ 

 

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Ahh.. that is already available in the Transform studio. :)

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Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Affinity Design 1.10.5 
Affinity Publisher 2, Affinity Designer 2, Affinity Photo 2 and betas.

Official Online iPad Help documents (multi-lingual) here: https://affinity.https://affinity.help/ 

 

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3 hours ago, Small said:

I would like to switch the document from landscape mode to portrait mode.

There isn't really a landscape or portrait "mode" in the iPad apps. On the new document screen, the landscape & portrait icons just provide a convenient way to swap the document width & height values, which is most useful when using the document presets. But unfortunately, AFAIK there is no equivalent in AD for iPad for the desktop version's File > Document > Dimensions "Portrait" checkbox that swaps the height & width of an existing document.

It can be done with an existing document in the iPad version of AD using Document > Resize, but the only way I found to do that is to manually enter the height & width values (so you have to remember the value of whichever one you change last), & only with Resize set to "Canvas," because for some reason setting it to "Document" does not work if you turn off "Resample."

If I just overlooked an easier way to do this with an existing document, I hope someone will post the method here.

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Ok I see that difference, however in your example above Photo it is rotating the canvas. You initially said you don't want to rotate the canvas? If you wan't to achieve the same outcome in AD (i.e. rotate canvas), the easiest method  is in Settings Preference Tools, turn on Allow Canvas Rotation in all Tools.

Then you just Place two fingers on screen to rotate or zoom in and out. This rotates and or zooms in on the canvas. 

If you select the Move tool and draw a rectangle (starting outside the canvas) and cover the whole canvas, you will select all objects. You can then flip or rotate without rotating the canvas. Otherwise I'm not sure what you are attempting to do. :/

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Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Affinity Design 1.10.5 
Affinity Publisher 2, Affinity Designer 2, Affinity Photo 2 and betas.

Official Online iPad Help documents (multi-lingual) here: https://affinity.https://affinity.help/ 

 

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3 minutes ago, R C-R said:

AFAIK there is no equivalent in AD for iPad for the desktop version's File > Document > Dimensions "Portrait" checkbox that swaps the height & width of an existing document.

Thanks RC-R, as I don’t have the desktop version I was unaware of that, hence the confusion about what the OP is trying to do. :)

M1 IPad Air 10.9/256GB   lpadOS 17.1.1 Apple Pencil (2nd gen).
Affinity Photo 1.10.5 Affinity Design 1.10.5 
Affinity Publisher 2, Affinity Designer 2, Affinity Photo 2 and betas.

Official Online iPad Help documents (multi-lingual) here: https://affinity.https://affinity.help/ 

 

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9 hours ago, DM1 said:

Ok I see that difference, however in your example above Photo it is rotating the canvas. You initially said you don't want to rotate the canvas? If you wan't to achieve the same outcome in AD (i.e. rotate canvas), the easiest method  is in Settings Preference Tools, turn on Allow Canvas Rotation in all Tools.

I'm not looking to rotate the canvas but the document, so that brushes with horizontal graphics are vertical without having to modify the brush.
But there are other ways to achieve what I want to do. 
But being a beginner on AD, I was surprised that this option does not exist.
In any case, thank you for your answers and advice, really appreciated!

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