Adding images to a rotated shape - bug?

[Travis]

I had a similar experience recently.  The object content was just text 
that I wanted right-side up despite the shape rotation, so a workaround 
was easier.  I wanted to use the house shape rotated 90 and 270 degrees 
but with the text inside to be right-side up in all cases.

My workaround at the time was to draw my own house with the polygon 
tool.  Unfortunately, that didn't scale nicely. (Any way to somehow 
scale a polygon?  When I grab a corner, I end up moving just that 
point.)  Now that I think about it, I wonder why I didn't just rotate 
the house and use a separate text object for the text.

-Travis

On Tuesday, April 15, 2003, at 08:03  PM, Paul Nash wrote:

> Hi folks,
>   Just a quick question regarding the rotation of objects.  When I 
> rotate an shape 180 degrees and try to insert an image inside the 
> shape, the image is also rotated 180 degrees.  Is there any way to 
> rotate an object but have the text/image appear properly?  As an 
> interim solution, I've been rotating all of my images accordingly in 
> photoshop and then inserting them, but this seems counter-intuitive.
>
> To see what I mean, do the following:
>
> 1) Open a doc.
> 2) Add a triangle shape
> 3) In the Geometry panel, rotate the image 180 degrees. The triangle 
> should now be flipped
> 4) Add an image. The image will also be flipped, even though it should 
> be right side up (atleast in my mind..)
>
> I can see this being a feature if I rotated the shape _after_ I 
> inserted the image.  In my mind, I think that if I were to rotate a 
> shape, and then insert an image, the image should be right side up.
>
> Am I missing something?
>
> Thanks,
>  -Paul