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 object’s bounding box also rotates, so you can reshape and resize the object in rotated space. If you drag a handle, the object’s 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 object’s rectangular shape distorts when you drag a handle on the bounding box, as shown by the dotted lines. Rotated bounding box Unrotated bounding box
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