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This is not an alternative to Illustrator.

It's a very very basic vector editor that doesn't even let you rotate things, import any standard vector formats (SVG, EPS, AI, PDF), have dotted outlines, distort, curve the text, etc etc etc.

I understand it was a lot of work, and you did a great job, but let's not pretend this implements even 1% of Illustrator.

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Rotation is possible. Activate the (rotate indicating) tool and move the resize/move/rotate handles.

Ah, sorry. It works in such a non-obvious way, I missed it.

The rotation tool works exactly the way Illustrator's does.

In, it doesn't.

You don't get the point of this, do you?

1) Select an object

2) Select the rotate tool (whose icon is the universal symbol for "rotate" that can't possibly be confused with anything else)

3) Click once to define an origin

4) Click and drag to interactively rotate about that origin.

This is how the Illustrator rotate tool has worked since, literally, Illustrator 1.0.

In Illustrator you don't have to do step 1 or 3.

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