Ayleigh Posted March 27, 2019 Share Posted March 27, 2019 Hey everyone! I am getting ready to purchase Affinity Designer finally and I was just curious about this. Is it possible to rotate your canvas while working on windows desktop? I'm sure you can on an ipad or something but I was hoping there is still a way to do this on the pc. Let me know please! Thanks... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
firstdefence Posted March 27, 2019 Share Posted March 27, 2019 You can on Mac with a trackpad. On Windows if you convert the canvas to an Artboard that can be rotated. Ayleigh 1 Quote iMac 27" 2019 Somona 14.3.1, iMac 27" Affinity Designer, Photo & Publisher V1 & V2, Adobe, Inkscape, Vectorstyler, Blender, C4D, Sketchup + more... XP-Pen Artist-22E, - iPad Pro 12.9 (Please refrain from licking the screen while using this forum) Affinity Help - Affinity Desktop Tutorials - Feedback - FAQ - most asked questions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted March 27, 2019 Share Posted March 27, 2019 2 hours ago, firstdefence said: You can on Mac with a trackpad. On a Macs, there is a Tools preference to enable freely rotating the view of the canvas to any angle with a trackpad gesture, but for those not using a trackpad or not wanting that gesture to do anything, there is also on the View menu Rotate Left, Rotate Right, & Reset Rotation. The first two rotate 15° at a time & the third resets the view to 0°. I am not sure but I think the Windows versions also have those 3 menu items. Ayleigh 1 Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.4.1 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 Affinity Photo 1.10.8; Affinity Designer 1.108; & all 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayleigh Posted March 28, 2019 Author Share Posted March 28, 2019 Ok perfect! Thanks guys. I appreciate you both getting back to me on this. Answered my question. I finally upgraded my computer so It can handle downloading Affinity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rnoble Posted March 7, 2020 Share Posted March 7, 2020 on a Mac desktop using version 1.8 it seems that I cannot rotate a canvas (in the works - not just for viewing) I cannot select maybe 3% left like you can in Photoshop. No trackpad, just mouse... Thanks Richard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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