: Rotate illustrator canvas and contents? Is there a way to rotate the canvas in illustrator 90 degrees? It's pdf format. I've tried the artboard tool (Cmd + o / Ctrl + o) I found an answer

@Sherry646

Design it in InDesign, where you can go to Pages -> Rotate Page View. This rotates the entire page and its contents, so that you can design something upside down (bellybands that wrap around a box or 2-sided packages folded on the short end, for example) and then rotate it back to design the right-side-up part.

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@Gretchen549

The quickest way I've found to do this is to create a clipping mask of the contents that lines up exactly to the edges of your artboard (use the align tool to get it exact).
Then rotate the artwork, then rotate the clipped mask. Then you can release the clipping mask.

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@Cofer715

Same as Javi, but before rotate anything, press M (Rectangle Tool) and generate a rectangle with the exact dimension of the Artboard.

Then, align to Artboard in both directions (H and V). Next, apply the Javi procedure...finally, delete the rectangle.

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@Moriarity648

Press Shift+O. At the top of the screen you can switch from portrait mode or landscape mode. Select your desired position.



Then press V (Selection Tool) then Ctrl + A(Select All) or Cmd + A on mac to select all the objects. Move your mouse to a the any corner of the selected box. Your mouse should change to this . Hold Shift and Click & Drag to rotate the selected object 90 degrees. There are number a ways to rotate objects, you can also right click the selected object > Transform > Rotate then apply what degree you want.

It does not matter if you rotate the canvas first or the objects first. They are independent of each other. To my knowledge there is no "one-click" method to doing both at the same time.

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