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Oriented Frame changes Auto-Layout orientation as well

  • February 13, 2025
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AttilaNyari

Hey there,

At any given frame for me somehow, whenever I set the orientation to make it “landscape” with 90degrees, the newly created auto-layout frames inside will change it’s direction as well, not just at Width-Height but the Layouts as well.

  • Selected A4 paper as frame
  • Set 90degrees to make it landscape
  • Created two frames inside which I want to work with, didn’t change the orientation,
  • Applied auto-layout, immediately see the Layout shows “horizontal”, but I made it clearly vertical,
  • If I set the Width to ‘fill’, doesn’t do anything however,
  • If I set the Height to ‘Fill’ it will be wider and filled horizontally and vica versa (Height is not doing anything but Width changes the Height like image below)

This is something which I just found out because I thought it’s a one time problem but it really comes back over and over again.

 

 

 

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  • Junko3
  • Figmate
  • February 17, 2025

Hi ​@AttilaNyari, Thanks for getting in touch!

 

Just want to make sure I'm following you correctly. Is this what's happening:

  1. You rotate an A4 frame by 90 degrees.
  2. You put two objects vertically inside the rotated A4 frame
  • When you apply Auto layout to the 90° rotated A4 frame, it says it's a "Horizontal layout."
  • And when you change the width of something inside the rotated Auto layout frame, it looks like it's changing the height instead.

This is actually the intended behavior. Auto Layout uses the frame's original orientation (0°) to determine the x and y axes for objects inside it.

 

So, when you arrange objects vertically in a 90° rotated frame, they flow along the x-axis (not the y-axis) relative to that original orientation.  That means "width" in the rotated frame is treated as "height."

Check out the recording below – it shows how the red guides indicate height and width in a 90° rotated frame.

 

Please check the related articles: Explore auto layout properties

 

Hopefully, that makes sense! Please let us know if I overlook anything.

Thanks again for reaching out.

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