CS4 First Quadrant CS5 Fourth Quadrant???

Question

I just installed my upgrade to Illustrator CS5 and have quickly noticed the quadrant change from previous versions. I need the y-axis to be positive, not negative...is there any way to change this? Unfortunately I have a feeling that I won't get the response that I am hoping for, but I thought it was worth a shot.
Thanks

Answer 1

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For many years, Illustrator has been the only design application that uses the 1st Quadrant (origin at lower left, y-values increasing as you move up the page).
Nonsense. FreeHand, Draw, Designer, Canvas, Xtreme are all illustration programs in Illustrator's same product category, and all use the normal Cartesian coordinate system. Same goes for almost all drawing programs in more exacting disciplines, such as CAD.
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If AI allowed you to set the direction of the Y axis...[various ostensible problems cited]
David,
Why do you consider it inherently less possible or more problematic to provide the Y-axis orientation as a user setting in Illustrator than it is for other programs that already do so?
For example:
Xtreme 5 document with rulers set to normal Y-up orientation:
Object copied, pasted (Paste In Place) into a separate Different document with Y-down orientation:
Both documents saved and open at the same time. No problem copying/pasting between them.
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Adding additional controls adds complexity, and many already feel that Illustrator is a complex product and needs to be simpler.
I quite agree that Illustrator is unnecessarily confused, cluttered, and poorly organized, making it nearly indecipherable to new users. But making a program approachable is an issue of interface design elegance, not a matter of limiting needed functionality. Between Illustrator and Xtreme, which do you consider--on the obvious face of it--more approachable to beginners?
JET