Comments on: Optional plug-in disables trackpad rotation

By: Sue Littman

Sue Littman — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 00:31:48 +0000

Is there a similar plug in for Photoshop Elements?
The accidental rotation is driving me crazy.
Thanks!
Sue

By: ben syverson

ben syverson — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 19:23:48 +0000

I’m editing a calendar in InDesign, and keep accidentally rotating tons of elements. It’s quite sensitive. Can you please address this in CS5? As it is, I can’t do much work unless I plug in an external mouse, and it’s giving me a very negative experience as a user. I’m sure there is one person out there who loves rotating elements with their trackpad, but at this point, I would like to punch them in the face.

By: Court

Court — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:24:40 +0000

Go the extra mile????
You mean like when you should have added a disabled option in the preferences?!
like any UI team with common sense would have?
The fact that you NEEDED to release a plugin after that fact speaks to the piss poor development environment over there, and yes I personally seen it. Too many managers and not enough engineers.

By: brad k. evans

brad k. evans — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 06:35:15 +0000

I heart the fix in photoshop. Is there any hope of getting the same type of support to fix the same issue in Indesign 6.0? it’s driving me a bit mad, and I’ve gotta find a way to fix it… please!

By: Frances W. Shackelford

Frances W. Shackelford — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 16:33:15 +0000

The complainant above misses the point: disabling that nasty rotation feature does fix the problem. The complaint was dim as well as rude.
However, after downloading I couldn’t drag the plug-in into the folder from the downloads folder or open it. Does anyone know what I might be doing wrong?
Thanks

By: Page Simon

Page Simon — Thu, 07 May 2009 19:12:45 +0000

Will this work for InDesign, too? Accidental rotation is SO annoying there! [I'm afraid there are no plans to offer a similar plug-in for ID CS4. --J.]

By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 06:21:54 +0000

Wow that’s pretty awesome — you put in the effort to develop a plugin, it didn’t work, so you developed a plugin to turn it off!
[The feature worked just fine with the laptops for which it was designed. The newer MBPs have a different trackpad design that makes it a little too easy to activate rotation/zooming inadvertently. In any case, I'm not sure how your comment is helpful. --J.]
Do you think you could develop a plugin to fix text input in Fireworks so that it works?
[The FW team is in fact working on an update. --J.]
I paid for this software, and it hurts when it doesn’t work!

By: Bramus!

Bramus! — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:36:52 +0000

Hi John, I just got a reply on my blog from someone from Adobe (the host address tells me this), stating that my request above (#) in fact is possible: http://www.bram.us/2009/02/26/adobe-photoshop-cs4-disable-canvas-rotation-via-trackpad-plug-in/#comment-385765 Regards, Bram.

By: Aaron Hall

Aaron Hall — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:47:16 +0000

http://adobegripes.tumblr.com/ :)

By: Tom Phillips

Tom Phillips — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 23:45:54 +0000

No John-
It seems like you started the entire thread with a bad attitude. Which is why a few of us tried to take you on. Honestly, I love your blog and despite our differences I’ll continue to read it. What bummed me out was your quickness to throw the market share thingy in our (my) face which is typically what windows folks do when they can’t win the argument otherwise. Considering your point about market share and linux I guess it makes sense. Touché. But, being a web developer, if I operated on that premise I wouldn’t even test on the safari browser. But then again, I don’t need to 99% of the time my designs look great on the Mac and I have to adjust for IE. Which brings me back to the whole reason for using Flash in the first place. It looks the SAME on both platforms, a very good reason for developing in Flash from the get go. Yes I realize that’s a whole ‘nuther can o’ worms but I’m a designer first and I can’t stand the way the PC renders type. Have they ever heard of anti-aliasing?
OK I’m now on a tangent.
Thanks for the spirited discussion.

By: Tom Phillips

Tom Phillips — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:47:29 +0000

John- I really don't think Apple's market share should enter into the conversation when it comes to the quality of Adobe's products. I realize the design community is small (comparitively speaking to the gigantic Windows user base) but it is US who flocked to Adobe in droves to use your products on our silly Macintoshes. Your comments really smack of arrogance which is why I might remind you, many of us abandoned Quark because of similar remarks made by their CEO. [Oh, come on. Arrogance? I said that the Flash Player team spends more time on the Mac version of the software than on Windows, despite market share. What shocking hubris! Let me ask you something. Let's say the Mac had 90+% market share, and that Windows users represented ~10% of viewers. Let's say you found out that despite these numbers, Adobe was putting more effort into the Windows version than the Mac. How would you feel? I bet you'd be hopping up and down about the injustice. Market share does matter. Do you think the Flash Player team should devote an equal amount of time to each flavor of Linux out there as it does to the Mac version of the player? Somehow I'm guessing no. --J.] In that situation, Quark's crappy product was the first problem and his comments about the Mac the final straw. Not that it would matter to Adobe since we account for only 1/10 of your business. [Hang on: no one talked about the Mac representing 1/10th of Adobe's business. Last time I checked, Creative Suite sales were roughly 50/50 Mac/Win. I was talking about Flash Player usage, which tracks closely to overall installed base. It's there that the Mac remains a minority. --J.] No big deal. I see that I hit a nerve and I am sorry about that. Sincerely, Tom [You know what hits a nerve? My fellow Mac users constantly acting like victims. Undifferentiated bleating makes it harder for me to fight for Mac-specific goodness. I run into people here who say, "Oh, those zealots are going to bitch no matter what, so just ignore 'em." --J.]

By: T. Schmidt

T. Schmidt — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 15:46:55 +0000

John, is there any way to get you to “fix” the Adjustment Layer dialogs, too? I would pay 40 bucks for such an update.
ps: I’m going to buy the new MacBook Pro and wouldn’t have if there was no way to fix that stupid rotation. Thanks for the extra work! Some companies are evil and some actually improve life for many, often it’s a mix. But in each case it’s individuals who make the choices, not a faceless system.

By: Tom Phillips

Tom Phillips — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 08:51:41 +0000

The Mac faithful are still smarting from the past experiences where Adobe prioritized its Flash plugin for Windows at the expense of the Mac version, which fell way behind in features and performance. [For what it's worth, my understanding is that the Flash Player team has actually put *more* effort into the Mac version of the Player, despite Macs representing a tenth of the market share of Windows. Mac fans have automatically concluded that any Flash-on-Mac slowness must be the result of ineptitude, sloth, or hostility on the part of the Flash team (i.e. there *can't* be any shortcomings in the Mac OS itself). Historically, at least, the story has been more complicated than that. I don't know where things now stand, except that the Flash team is eager to make FP on Mac as fast as possible. --J.] Still, I think it's great to hear that Adobe is making efforts to work with Apple's new hardware. It's ok we still love Adobe and its products (most of em anyway).

By: Damien Jemison

Damien Jemison — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:19:40 +0000

This is great... I ordered a MacBook Pro on Tuesday with CS4, timing couldn't be better. [I myself ordered a new 17" right when they were announced, but there's still no ETA on when it might actually arrive. Macworld said last week that units are shipping, but CDW has no idea what's up. Ah well, it builds the anticipation. ;-) --J.]

By: imajes

imajes — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:21:03 +0000

This blog and John's patience and understanding go a long way to mitigating the 'heartless' beast that any large corporation is. You put a very human face on a very big business and your attempts to always do a good a job as possible is much appreciated by many, as is the time you take to explain why things do or don't happen. It's ironic you as an Adobe representative take the most heat from Apple Fanbois, when it's Apple that is the real psychopathic coorporation. To understand the psycho comment, I suggest you read the book 'The Corporation' which posits that if a corparation wasa human it's behviou would be regarded aas psycopathic in nature. An interesting read. http://www.amazon.com/Corporation-Pathological-Pursuit-Profit-Power/dp/0743247442