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Drawing straight lines |
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| You use the pen tool
in Illustrator to draw straight lines by creating anchor points, which
as the name implies, hold a line at specific points. |
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begin a line position the pen tool over the point where you want the
line to begin and click. You will create an anchor point. To complete
a line segment position the pen tool over the point where you want
the segment to end. A second anchor point is created and a line forms
between the two. Every subsequent click of the mouse will add another
line segment to the path. If you see a carrot symbol next the pen
tool while you are using it that means that the segment will begin
at the last anchor point. |
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| To keep lines
vertical, horizontal and diagonal hold down the shift key while creating
line segments. This is known as constraining the line. |
| In order
to begin a new line segment you must end the current path. To do this
you "click away" from the line. Choose the selection tool from the
toolbox and click away from the line to end the path. Or you can Choose
Edit>Deselect All. If you see a small x next to the pen tool you know
that you are a click away from a new path. |
| Note:
The quickest way to click away from a line is to hold down the command
key, which turns whatever tool is active into the last selection tool
used, and click away from the line |
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