I just realized that when i rotated the canvas i’m drawing in via overview. These tool still working as if i have not rotated anything.
The example above is me trying to select something. Yet instead of following my cursor movement of making ⌷, my the selection move diagonally and ended become ⃟ . This behaviour is very disorienting.
Is there a way to change it?
When you rotate the canvas in that way, you’re rotating the composited view of the document.
The tools such as rectangular selection and rectangle drawing tool will still create ‘non-rotated’ rectangles on the actual document/layers and so you see rotated rectangles on the on-screen canvas view.
The Overview docker shows the non-rotated canvas.
The only way around that would be to do Image → Rotate which would be inconvenient and would also add distortion/smearing to the content every time you did it.
It would be nice
Here is a feature request that covers the selection part, i think rotated transform got added in 5.3
If i rotate the actual canvas, i wonder how the recording would behave. After all, it was snapshoting the working canvas itself.
not really what i have in mind but this could work as workaround
The easiest way to find out is to try it and see what happens, with a simple test document.
