Inkscape Forum Inkscape > Re: How to control the rotation of objects?

> objects. Is there a way to control how much an object is rotated other
> than the 90? function? Something similar to the GIMP's rotation tool
> where you can choose the actual number of degrees by which you want to
> rotate a given object? Dealing with patterns (see my other post) I am
> attempting to generate a pattern off different rotation angles of some
> paths, however I find it very difficult to obtain the desired effect by
> manually turning every shape into the position I want it/need it to be
> 100% symmetrical. Is there a way to assess the rotation of objects?
> (sorry if my n00bishness shows, but I'm a n00b!). Just for the record,
> I'm attempting this in Inkscape 0.46 on Fedora 8.
>

with object selected
(menu) object -> transform (shift-ctrl-m)
tabs for move, scale, *rotate*, skew, matrix

Carl