Rotate document view

Rather than rotating the document permanently, you can rotate the document view instead. This allows you to view your document from a different angle without manipulating its layout.

Rotated document view

About document view rotation

Being able to rotate the document view is beneficial for a number of applications:

To rotate the document view:
To reset the document view back to its original rotation:

Do one of the following:

To switch on document view rotation using a scroll wheel:
  • From Affinity Designer>Settings (or >Preferences) (Tools option), check Enable canvas rotation with +scroll wheel.
To switch on document view rotation using a scroll wheel:
  • From Edit>Settings (Tools option), check Enable canvas rotation with +scroll wheel.

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