Overview
SignMaster Cut provides a number of on-screen and
procedural tools to rotate and skew all
objects including curves, images, shapes and text plus
all the effects which can be applied to these objects
within a Document.
How
to Rotate and Skew Objects
To
Do the following
Rotate an Object (Mouse)
1.
Select the
Object and
either click on the Top Right Rotation Handle
(shown directly above on the left), or;
2.
Double-click on the Object to bring up the Rotation
Handles (as shown directly above on the right), then Drag
one of the Rotate Handles to the required
Rotation Point, or;
You can adjust the
Point of Rotation by moving the center node to any position.
Click on the Advanced
Size Tools button
to bring up the Size Tools (as shown at the top);
Size Tools Panel - Rotation, Skew and Mirror
3.
Click in Angle (as shown
directly above), and then either: (a) click the Up arrow
to rotate the object clockwise in 5 degree increments, or;
(b) click the
Down arrow to rotate the object counter-clockwise in
5 degree increments, or: (c) type in a value and press Enter.
To reset the Rotation click
Clear Rotations.
Pure Angle refers to
the Object's current angle from 0.00 degrees.
Skew an Object
•
To Skew a selected Object,
Double-click on it to bring up the Skew
Handles (as shown directly above), then Drag
one of the Skew Handles to the required Skew Point.
To set the Skew
in even multiples of the Object's width click in
Pure Skew (see Rotation in degrees, above) and
type in a value and click Enter.
You can clear Rotate and Skew by
clicking Clear Transformations from the Arrange menu.
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to bring up the Size Tools (as shown at the top);
