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Drawing a triangle pointing down. Impossible?

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    • January 10, 2013 at 10:05 am #63917
      Sleepwalker
      Member

      Quick question: If I draw a triangle with the polygon tool, it always draws it with the tip pointing up.

      So, if I want it point down, I will have to rotate or mirror it. That is no problem of course. But if want to apply any object formatting with a gradient or shadow to it, the direction of the gradient or shadow is also mirrored or turned.

      Question: is there a way to RESET the angle values of the turned triangle to zero, just as if it was an unmodified and clean new object?

      Tim

      (Indesign 5.5)

    • January 10, 2013 at 10:59 am #63919
      David Blatner
      Keymaster

      Wonderfully obscure solution to this problem… it's the same issue, fundamentally, as this post on how to rotate text inside a frame:

      https://creativepro.com/rot…..-frame.php

      Draw a tiny frame on top of the triangle, select both, then choose object > pathfinder > add. Weird, eh?!

    • January 11, 2013 at 10:31 am #63924
      Sleepwalker
      Member

      Thank you David,

      I hoped for a keyboard shortcut or so ;-) But this workaround seems to solve for a bunch of problems.

      Thanks again,

      Tim

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