Sometimes when I create site maps, I have to rotate the whole map 90 degrees. After rotation, the text has to be rotated to match. The problem comes because sometimes the center of rotation changes to match some other point rather than the actual center. It seems that the text is picking up some rotation point from the group or whole map. Does anyone know a way to reset the rotation center?
Right now I have to select the text, click to rotate center, then apply a rotation of 90 degrees. I would really love to just be able to rotate them with the extra step of clicking to rotate center in the transformation docker. Also, I have the Dizzy Shaping 3 macro which would rotate all of this 90 degrees in place in one go excpet for the fact that all the text would jump based on where the center of rotation is set.
I'm attaching the file so everybody can see what I'm talking about.
Steve
www.brutefish.com
<Brute-Fish> wrote in message news:77349@coreldraw.com... Sometimes when I create site maps, I have to rotate the whole map 90 degrees.
Sometimes when I create site maps, I have to rotate the whole map 90 degrees.
Jeff Harrison MacroMonster.com Daily Diversion Blog
Ok, I think I see what you mean.. let me play
Brute-Fish:Does anyone know a way to reset the rotation center?
Ok try this, see attached
I selected all artistic text using select same macro
reason for this: offers more control to select text of certain point size
then Arrange > Clear Transformations
this zeros the center point, and straightens text, but that's a good thing.
then typed 61 degrees in dizzy shaping macro
which rotated some small text chunks into right position. Other blocks were wrong. so I selected certain text within a block and rotated perhaps 8 artistic text strings at a time using Shaping, in + or - 2 degree increments. This way you see what's happening until it looks right.
see attached if this is better, it went fairly fast thanks to shaping, but zeroing center point before using Clear Transformations was key.
Brute-Fish:Yeah. I thought the Dizzy 3 macro would do it if I checked the center rotation at the top but it's not centering the rotation. I can only do it individually which is a pain.
Well, not too bad, here is movie so others following know what we're talking about.
Clearing the transformations was the key. Now I can rotate the text for a whole building in one go which is still a lot faster than doing them one at a time. I'm using Dizzy 3 and matching the rotation of the building minus the 90 degrees to get my text orientation.
Now that I know what the root cause is I can watch out for the issue before getting to this point. Thanks Jeff.
<Brute-Fish> wrote in message news:77361@coreldraw.com... Now that I know what the root cause is I can watch out for the issue before getting to this point. Thanks Jeff.