Illustrator :: Creating Anchor Point On Intersection Of Two Paths?

Apr 2, 2013

I'm trying to crate an anchor point on an intersection of two paths. Not by 'joining paths' (as that joins them from the ends); I just want to join two paths in such a way that an anchor point is crated at the point where they intersect. That's how it works in Flash, but I can't figure it out in AI. I created an image to clarify what I'm trying to achieve.

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Illustrator SDK :: Intersection Of Anchor Point With A Middle Of The Path

Jan 20, 2013

Is it possible to find intersection poit of the anchor point and any point on path?

Like on a picture, there are an anchor poit from a line, which intersects arc path, and I need to find intersection poit on the arc (can be line) path. Thus I can do further processing for arc after intersection - change position, set color etc.

I suppose I need to divide that arc path and that will be the best way, but all I need for this moment extract point before intersection and after and process in our custom preview. Is there way to find this intersection?

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Illustrator :: Tools Related To Anchor Points Not Working - Can't Add Point To Paths Or Convert A Point

Jan 2, 2014

Having a lot of issues manipulating points on paths in Illustrator CC - this is a fundamental feature of creating vector graphics and it's very annoying I'm paying for this and it's just not working. Eating up a lot of my time simply because I can't select or convert or add the anchor.

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Illustrator :: Join 3 Anchor Points For Intersection Effect?

Sep 16, 2013

I'm seriously stuck trying to join 3 open paths with stroke only, into something of an intersection that is dividing 3 pie slots. However I can't join more than 2 of them, as the screenshot below the third one gets left behind, Join command doesn't work   Because I have the opacity down to 70% you can see the ugly overlap in the intersection and I need to join all the 3 points for them to look as they should. If/how this can be done in Illustrator?

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Illustrator :: Find Intersection Of Two Non-touching Paths?

Feb 14, 2014

I'm wondering if it's possible to find the point where two paths WOULD intersect, or possibly a way to "join by two paths", I want to join 2 paths by continuing them to the point where they would naturally meet.  I've included an image.

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Illustrator :: Hovering Over Paths Shows Anchor Points Or Something Else?

Sep 14, 2012

As I move the Selection tool over a path I see what looks like a white anchor point that moves along with the selection tool as I hover over the path, however, there are not anchors other than the beginning and ending of this path. Are these anchor points or something else?

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Illustrator :: Can't Delete Anchor Points With Delete Anchor Point Tool

Aug 30, 2012

I have a shape in illustrator CS6 that I'm trying to edit. When I try to click on a point with the Delete Anchor Point Tool nothing happens however I am able to select the point using the Direct Selection Tool and then remove it using the "Remove selected anchor points" option in the Control palette. Same issue with trying to use the Convert Anchor Point Tool.

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Illustrator :: Series Of Closed Paths - Removing Part Of Intersection?

Feb 17, 2014

I have a series of very basic closed paths, doodles which intersect on another. I'd like to remove part of the intersection so that it'll appear that there's a whole devided into doodles, with no double lines. I know it might be simple but I can try here until the end of time...

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Jun 12, 2007

In Illustrator I have a path, I choose the add anchor point tool and am positive I have the cross hair exactly on the path but it keeps telling me I can't add the anchor point.

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Illustrator :: How To Add Or Delete Anchor Point

Feb 7, 2014

I've noticed that in Illustrator CC (17.1) the pen cursor doesn't automatically let you add or delete an anchor point anymore, when in Pen tool mode (P). It used to be an automatic feature in CS5, where a + or - sign would show up whenever I hovered over a selected path with the tool.

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Illustrator :: Anchor Point Of A Selected Object?

Mar 17, 2013

In PS you can drag the center anchor point of an object anywhere within the object or canvas, allowing you to rotate around that custom location versus the dead-center of the object.

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Illustrator :: Removing Last Anchor Point's Handle?

Jan 30, 2014

Is there a way to somehow define a shortkey to the process of removing our last anchor point's unused handle?
 
I am talking about this:

To be able to make a sharp corner I have to manually click on the anchor point so the handle which is still unused gets deleted. The anchor points are particulary small and the don't scale when zooming so sometimes it's just hard to click them and therefore I would love if I could automatically remove the handle with a key/key combination.

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Illustrator :: How To Round Anchor Point On The End Of A Path

Dec 17, 2013

I have made a curved path in Illustrator CS6, just a simple stroke (left in picture). Is there an easy way to round the corner of the end of it? Something like the image on the right? (I just tossed a circle over top to give an idea)

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Illustrator :: How To Align Anchor Point With Object

Feb 15, 2013

I have a shape I made with the pen tool, and now I want to align one anchor point of the shape with the middle of a rectangle. How can I do this? It doesn't seem like I can do what I do for objects, which is select both objects, click the object I want to align to, and hit align. If I'm not describing this properly let me know and I can try to clarify.

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Illustrator :: Too Many Anchor Point When Brushes Expand In CS6

Jul 19, 2013

I have recently upgraded to CS6 from CS2. I do a lot of digital inking in Illustrator as part of my job. In CS2 I would create a simple tapered brush using 4 anchor points. When I would draw a brush stroke say with two anchor points, and then expand that brush stroke. Illustrator CS2 would convert the outlined tapered brush stroke back to the the original 4 anchor point path that I had originally created with maybe one extra point if the stroke curved  drastically. Now is CS6 illustrator creates that same expanded brush with 9 to 12 anchor points in the path. This makes the program completly useless for my task. Is there anyway to correct this?

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Illustrator :: Convert Anchor Point To Right Angle?

Jan 21, 2014

I would like to select an anchor point and adjust it so that it creates a perfect right angle. How can I do that?
 
Imagine some closed, filled shape, made up of a dozen anchor points. I would like to select one of those anchor points (a corner anchor point, not a smooth anchor point), and adjust it (built-in function? script?) so that it create a perfect right angle (90 deg.). This essentially would mean moving it to just the right spot so that the lines connecting it to its two neighbouring anchor points would form a right angle.
 
do not assume that the resulting right angle would necessarily be orientated along a North-South axis, or any other rational compass direction.

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Illustrator Scripting :: How To Add Anchor Point On A Path

Sep 22, 2012

Is there any way to find a specific point on a path, that is not necessarily an anchor point?
 
What I'd like to be able to do is tell Illustrator "Give me the coordinates of the point that's exactly at half of this path's length" or "... exactly 25% ...". And if that's possible, can I somehow add an anchor point to that point, or cut the path at that point?

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Illustrator :: Anchor Point Handles Settings?

Mar 1, 2013

Are there any options to specify the "positions" etc. of handles of anchor points in order to be able to shape a little more precise for example for an image that has to be identically left and right shaped?
 
I'm drawing a Bell (church bell) at the moment and drawing one side first and duplicating and reflecting it works fine to get the perfectly symmetrical shape, but when I want to adjust some handles or shaping, I would like to do this identically left and right without constantly having to adjust one side and duplicate it etc.

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Illustrator :: Anchor Point Snapping To Specific Angles

Aug 12, 2013

In Illustrator CS5 my anchor point handles are snapping to specific angles,which I don't want. I have to turn off Smart Guides to freely adjust the handles.
 
Under preferences, Smart Guides, I turned off the custom construction guides, but even this did not correct the issue. I love using Smart Guides and I thought there were just in face that 'guides' and provided no snapping.
 
I also tried turning off 'snapping to point' to see if that was creating an issue, but no dice.
 
I can provide my system settings in case:
 
Mac OSX 10.8.4
16 GB memory
Illustrator CS5
 
Wanted to ensure I was not missing a feature I couldn't find or research before trying to reset my preferences.

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Illustrator :: Moving Anchor Point Using Spacebar While Drawing With Pen

Aug 28, 2012

While using the pen tool, moving the current anchor point by hold down the spacebar, is a great time-saver and I use it frequently. But I find it a little frustrating that, when closing a path, the "spacebar" feature does not work. Instead, the apposing direction point goes whacko. Is there an alternate keyboard shortcut to overcome it? Even though I "know" it won't work, I seem unable to resist holding the spacebar to fine-tune the last anchor point.

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Illustrator :: How To Start Drawing With Pen Tool From Different Anchor Point

Dec 15, 2013

It's as simple as that. How do I change the anchor point from which I'm drawing. I'm using the pen tool on Illustrator CS6 on a tablet.

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Illustrator :: Drag Only One Handle Out Of Anchor Point In Path

Mar 28, 2010

I'm wondering how it's possible to drag only one handle out of an anchor point. Sometimes I have a path and some anchor points have only one handle dragged out. Now I want to adjust the other handle _without_ changing the already positioned handle. Is this even possible?
 
The "convert anchor point tool" does allow me to drag out handles, but only both at a time. This always results in changing the already positioned handle's position.

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Illustrator :: How To Display Each Anchor Point Number Or Label

Jan 19, 2014

In an earlier Illustrator CS version, i was able to display any Paths' anchor point Numbers or label. But in CS6 with both "Anchor/Path Labels" enabled in Prefs. > Smart Guide section and in View > Smart Guides, no Point Numbers are displayed.

How to display each paths anchor point numbers or label?

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Illustrator :: Possible To Change Stroke Colour From One Anchor Point To Another?

Oct 7, 2013

Im working on an object which has 4 anchor points, i would like to keep to black stroke for 2/3 segments of the object but i would like to change the colour between two anchor points (so 1/3 segments).

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Illustrator :: Display / Show/ Print Point Or Anchor Coordinates In CS5

Mar 21, 2013

I don't simply want to see the coordinates when I hover over a point. I want the coordinates actually showing on the document. Is there a plug-in that can accomplish this easily?

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Illustrator :: Stroke In Circular Path - Anchor Point Movements

Mar 4, 2014

So i've got a stroke in a circular path. I use the scissor tool and cut a segment of it out. Now, i want to move one of the end points up and have the anchor points after it follow the movement to keep the smooth line. I think Flash had a tool like this. It allowed you to manipulate one point that would affect the whole path depending on how extreme or what direction you went.

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Illustrator Scripting :: How To Get Position Of Point Text From Left Anchor

Jun 9, 2012

I'm trying to get the position of point text from left anchor if left aligned, middle if center aligned and right if right aligned. is this even possible?
 
here are the keys of object I am trying to get at:
 
keys:
 
story : [Story]
contents : export me
textRange : [TextRange]
textSelection : [TextRange]
rowCount : 1
columnCount : 1
rowGutter : 0
columnGutter : 0
flowLinksHorizontally : true
spacing : 0
opticalAlignment : false
kind : TextType.POINTTEXT
contentVariable : undefined
orientation : TextOrientation.HORIZONTAL
 
this is what I am using to get at it:

app.activeDocument.textFrames[2].anchor[0]
 
am i confusing anchor point with baseline position?

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Illustrator :: Adjust Starting Point Anchor Of A Variable Width Profile?

Mar 19, 2013

I want it to be a variable stroke, so I loaded up “Width Profile 2” in the profiles. The trouble I am having, is that Illustrator defaults to start the larger dots in the bottom right hand corner, and I would like the “starting point” to be in the middle of the line if you know what I mean. I'm still happy for the dots to start big, then gradually decrease in size, but I want to control where the “beginning” is.

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Illustrator :: Clicking Inactive Anchor Point With Pen Tool Severs Its Handle

Jan 23, 2014

I have read several Pen tool tutorials but haven't found anything about this:
 
If I draw a path with the pen tool and later want to reactivate it, clicking the last anchro point to make the path active severs one of its control handles. Specifically the handle that is for the curve that is yet to be drawn. And after that I have to use the Convert Anchor Point tool to recreate both control handles and try to math the already existing one to its former place.
 
How can I fix this?

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Illustrator :: Trace With Pen Tool - Parts Of Template Disappears With Each New Anchor Point

Oct 29, 2012

When I try to trace a template with the pen tool parts of the template disappears with each new anchor point. How to keep this from happening?

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Illustrator Scripting :: Move Direction Handles In Sync With Anchor Point?

Aug 17, 2012

I'm trying to nudge the anchor points on an object randomly (to get an informal look). (I know some Effects do this already.)
 
Maintaining corner points is no problem - you just set the direction handles to the same coordinates as their anchor.
 
But I can't nudge a smooth point in the way I want to, which is to move the anchor but maintain the direction handles in exactly the same relation to their anchor as they had before. That is to say, they should remain smooth points.
 
My script calculates the difference between 'before' and 'after' positions of the anchor, and applies that difference to the direction handles… but in practice the smooth points are converted to corners, because the direction handles don't maintain their relation with the anchor.
 
var docRef = activeDocument;
var objects = activeDocument.selection.length;
var cShift = prompt("Point shift (pt)",5);
// loop through all objects
for(var count=0;count<objects;count++)

[Code] .....

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