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- nylon
If you drew a square in ai and rotated it, saved it and gave the file to someone else...
Is there a way that person can find out how many degrees you rotated it?
Please help!
- detritus0
I suppose if the bounding box hasn't been reset, you could use that as a rough guide, but afaik - no.
- duckseason0
I think if you use the Transform effect to rotate they should be able to pull it up from the Appearance panel.
- As long as you don't expand it.duckseason
- unfortunately nomonospaced
- hellobotto0
In AI, not without the recipient doing a little work and math that I know of.
Have them draw a guide (X or Y) and drag it to the the square's center point. Be sure to not have the guide locked. Rotate the guide until it intersects/snaps to corner.
Calculate the difference between the amount of rotation of the guide and 45 degrees. Confirm the math with a similar/identical shape.
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Or... replicate the exercise in Photoshop as a smart object so PS maintains your rotation info. The recipient could open the vector smart object from PS into AI and apply the rotation noted in PS.
- holy shit, I didn't know you could rotate guides in AI!i_monk
- Oh yes. Shaped guides are also incredibly helpful.hellobotto
- estetic0
After its saved/closed/reopened/ or even lose object focus I don't believe the exact rotation information is saved just the coordinates of the points in the object. The origin is reset every time a transform/rotate occurs.
You could duplicate the object (paste in front), add a guide line in the lowest bottom corner, using the rotate tool set the origin to this corner, then use the other bottom corner to rotate back to horizontal (snap to guide). This will tell you the degree of rotation from horizontal.
- ^ what they said haha - what i get for walking away mid response...estetic
- monospaced0
This has always frustrated me about Illustrator. InDesign, on the other hand, retains the rotation information so that you can always type in a 0 and revert it to normal. Why Adobe doesn't find the best version of a function in each app and make it consistent across the CS is beyond me.
- monospaced0
And why are Illustrator's "Smart Guides" so fucking dumb? I resize an item and it "snaps" to some other point and I'm like, nice. Then I zoom in and realize it's not snapped right, it's just really close. In InDesign, the whole thing snaps just as it should. Why can't Illustrator do it right like InDesign does? Ugh.
- I feel like the smart guides were much smarter back in 2001monospaced
- Yeah, this is pretty annoying.duckseason
- such a pain. what's the point if they don't workGnash
- Yeah I just turn em off and use math(s) when that happens.MrT
- yupmonospaced
- i_monk0
My bounding box has disappeared and the show/hide setting under View doesn't seem to matter. It shows up if I have multiple objects selected, otherwise not at all. Any ideas? I've already tried resetting preferences and relaunching.
- shift ctrl B, if not - then check Adobe Sync preferences?detritus
- sometimes a bounding box appears when nothing is selected, and it only gets fixed with random white arrow selectngmonospaced
- white arrow selecting and deselecting.monospaced