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What the… ? Half-vertices???
Hey,
I’m experiencing a weird problem in Illustrator that hopefully some kind soul can help me with.
‘Suddenly’when I draw a line with the Pen tool I’m getting ‘half-vertices’ (sorry if that’s not what they’re called). Basically, I mean instead of getting smooth curves I’m getting sharp angles broken at the point with just one bezier handle.
What the… ?
I must have pressed some weird command but the problem isn’t going away. I just keep getting these bizarre angles.
Got me stumped (and frustrated as Hell). Any advice would be sooo appreciated.
Thanks,
ALEX
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I’d like to help but I’m really not following. The pen tool should give you a point were you start and a point where you click again with a straight line in between, unless you hold the mouse button down a drag to bring you handles out and create a curve.
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Hey Jeff,
Thanks for responding.
I’m probably just not explaining things very well. Basically, I click and make a point then when I click to make the next point (and hold the mouse button down) I don’t get a curve, I get one half of the handles only and the line makes a half straight/half curved shape – or sometimes it locks into just sharp angles (and won’t let me drag out any handles).
So weird. Just cannot understand what is going on here. Have been using Illustrator (in a limited way) for years and suddenly it’s just doing wacko things.
Hope you (or someone) might be able to help.
Thanks kindly,
ALEX
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