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1. View Rotation Feature is obstructing regular pinching in or out gesture for zooming, when using the trackpad

   When using the pinching in or out gesture on the trackpad, to zoom in or out. The artboard gets rotated very easily if there is even a slight rotation in the gesture while.

   And then part 2 of problem. Its impossible to set it back to 0degrees. It keeps snapping between some low degrees

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   Signed in as (Sign out) Close Close Submit Rating Completed (Comments Open) · AdminAnkit Goyal(Illustrator Team) (Admin, Adobe Illustrator) responded

   I am happy to share that we have fixed this bug in our latest release – 25.4.1 which is available worldwide now.

   Going forward, our goal is to fix as many top User-Voice bugs as possible and as frequently as possible. Given the nature of the fixes, some of the bugs will take a longer time to fix, but we are on it.

   You can update to the latest release using Creative Cloud desktop App: https://helpx.adobe.com/in/creative-cloud/help/creative-cloud-updates.html

   Thank you for all the feedback. Keep it coming!

2. Zoom is broken when using the new Rotate View tool

   When using the new Rotate View Tool (v25.4.1) to rotate the view to e.g. 90°, Alt-scroll zooming doesn't zoom to the mouse pointer and the scroll bars are hyper sensitive.

   Please see this screen recording: https://www.dropbox.com/s/2127o6786unbgf7/Screen%20Recording%202021-10-04%20at%2011.03.29%20PM.mov?dl=0

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3. Disable SHIFT + SPACE Keyboard Shortcut for Rotate Canvas

   A SHIFT+ SPACE keyboard shortcut for the rotate canvas tool was introduced in a minor version update of Ai 25 (sometime after 25.2.1). This keyboard shortcut is very disruptive when trying to make selections while panning around the artboard. For example, you used to be able to continually hold down the SHIFT and SPACE keys to pan around the artboard while quickly dragging the cursor around points or objects to add them to your selection. With the new rotate canvas shortcut, you have to carefully press SHIFT, make your first selection, release SHIFT, press SPACE to to pan, release, press SHIFT again and add to your selection, release, and so on. This is not a comfortable key combo and it makes it very easy to accidentally release your entire selection.

   Prior to this update, we've never had a need for a quick toggle shortcut for the rotate canvas tool on desktop. If the tool is needed, it is accessible via the hand tool quickly enough.

   This issue is present in version 25.4.1 and 26.0.1.

   Starting with version 25.4.1, Adobe added a Preferences option to disable the trackpad gesture to rotate view. Please either disable this toggle shortcut completely or also add an option to Preferences to disable the SHIFT+ SPACE keyboard shortcut for desktop users.

   A SHIFT+ SPACE keyboard shortcut for the rotate canvas tool was introduced in a minor version update of Ai 25 (sometime after 25.2.1). This keyboard shortcut is very disruptive when trying to make selections while panning around the artboard. For example, you used to be able to continually hold down the SHIFT and SPACE keys to pan around the artboard while quickly dragging the cursor around points or objects to add them to your selection. With the new rotate canvas shortcut, you have to carefully press SHIFT, make your first selection, release SHIFT, press SPACE to to pan, release, press… more

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4. Touch Type's alternate glyphs panel should ignore view rotation.

   Okay, just, look at this screenshot. Look at it. Contemplate it for a moment. Ask yourself if this feels like the right thing to do.

   The type itself is at about 45º to the edges of the artboard; I've rotated the canvas to roughly align with the type so I can have a better view of it while I think about how to properly deploy Bookmania's glorious OpenType alternate forms.

   I really wasn't expecting the Touch Type tool's popup to match the alignment of the canvas' edges but in retrospect I'm not surprised. NOTHING drawn in the preview window aligns with the screen instead of the canvas, no matter how much more sense it would make for it to do this. Everything that drags out an area does it in the canvas' coordinates instead of the screen and it's so annoying. I really wish Adobe would assign an intern to look for rough UI edges around canvas rotation for an entire product cycle and FINISH this furshlugginer feature, as usual it was delivered, had maybe one extra release to fix any glaring crashes it created, and then just totally forgotten.

   Honestly it might actually be pretty cool if the Touch Type character popup was aligned with the rotation of the currently chosen letter, since it can clearly be rendered at an angle.

   Okay, just, look at this screenshot. Look at it. Contemplate it for a moment. Ask yourself if this feels like the right thing to do.

   The type itself is at about 45º to the edges of the artboard; I've rotated the canvas to roughly align with the type so I can have a better view of it while I think about how to properly deploy Bookmania's glorious OpenType alternate forms.

   I really wasn't expecting the Touch Type tool's popup to match the alignment of the canvas' edges but in retrospect I'm not surprised. NOTHING drawn in the preview window aligns… more

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5. Rotate View Tool - Alt + Transform

   Using the alt+tranform and the rotate view together is impossible because the object flickers between dramatically different sizes.

   Replicate this bug by using the rotate view tool and rotating the view 180 degrees. When in this view, hold down alt and try to transform an objects scale. The object will flicker between sizes making it impossible to transform using alt.

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