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Edges not Straight
Hi, I’m learning Illustrator CS3. I’m trying to make a barn shape. It looks good except the bottom edge isn’t a straight line. When I grab a point and move it, to try to make the line straight, it’s always off (up or down) by a tiny bit, never a perfect straight line. Any suggestions on creating shapes that have straight edges?
Thank you, Donovan
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it Sounds silly, but have you tried grabbing the other end of your line and moving it up or down slightly and seeing if the line then goes perfectly straight???
When drawing shapes, holding down shift (windows os) whilst drawing will keep everything as it should be… a line straight, a circle circular (instead of oliptical) and a square square.
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LOL Yep, tried tweaking both corners, up, down, left right. Seems like there’s always one edge that isn’t quite straight. Didn’t know about the shift key, thanks for that info 🙂
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annoying at first, but you need to know the modifiers to get anywhere with paths in illustrator.
a decent book will have a quick reference chart for the modifiers and keystrokes, so you can learn them as you go.
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