6.4 Center of Rotation
When you switch the Selector tool into rotate mode, you will see a cross mark in the center of the selected object or objects. This is the center of rotation. This point is remembered for each object and is one of its permanent properties; moving any object’s center is an undoable action, and when you save the document, the rotation centers of all objects are saved with it. Scaling, rotation, or skewing are performed around this point not only with the Selector tool but in most other places as well (such as in the Transform dialog or when transforming by keyboard shortcuts).
By default, the rotation center is in the geometric center of the bounding box of an object. With the Selector tool, you can freely drag it to any point ...
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