3
In the Rotate dialog box, click the clockwise or counter-clock-
wise button to choose a rotation direction.
4
Enter the rotation angle in degrees in the Angle text box.
5
The Center edit box shows the center of rotation as a gray han-
dle. To change it, click one of the black handles on the bounding
box; the gray handle snaps to the new location.
6
Click Apply to preview the settings, or click OK to implement
the settings and close the dialog box.
Editing rotated objects
When you rotate an object, the objects bounding box also rotates, so
you can reshape and resize the object in rotated space. If you drag a
handle, the objects sides keep their rotated orientation. This prevents
distortion of the original shape.
Center of rotation edit box
Clockwise and counter-clockwise
rotation buttons
The bounding box of a
rotated square has the
same orientation as the
rotated object...
... so the object
maintains its
rectangular shape,
shown by the dotted
lines, when you drag
the bounding box
handles.
If you choose
Convert to Paths,
Canvas re-orients the
bounding box of a
rotated object...
... so the objects
rectangular shape
distorts when you
drag a handle on the
bounding box, as
shown by the dotted
lines.
Rotated bounding box
Unrotated bounding box