Map graphics initial rotation and alignment buttons consider the map rotation

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06-17-2022 04:31 AM
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JonahMiller
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This is a two-part suggestion, plus an optional third:

  1. When adding a text graphic to a rotated map, the text displays upright based on the display -- not upright to 0 degrees rotation, resulting in an apparently-skewed orientation. Functionally, this would mean that added text is set with a default rotation that is negative to the map's rotation. (This would apply only affect the behavior when adding new graphics; graphics would not be updated when map rotation is change)
  2. More importantly, when selecting multiple graphics in a rotated map and clicking "Align [top/bottom/right/left]," the displayed top/bottom/right/left edge of the graphics are aligned. This is crucial because otherwise there is no way to get graphics properly aligned on a rotated map! 
    1. Another way of handling this would be to have alignment consider the graphics' top/bottom/right/left bounds, not related to the map at all

A tertiary workaround concept/suggestion is the ability to move graphics between map and layout (and vice versa), so that you could bring the "rotated" map graphics out to the layout where they would not be "rotated," align them, and then put them back in the map. There was a way to move graphics between map and layout in Desktop, and that's one of the features I miss greatly!