In Illustrator a selected point is dark (filled) and non-selected points are hollow. With the Direct Selection Tool (A), one or more points on a path can be selected. With the Selection Tool (V), a path can be selected.

Many other options on this page are related to the pen tool, try them out some time. Go to Preferences > Selection & Anchor Display and activate Constrain Path Dragging on Segment Reshape, the fourth checkbox from the top. Use Cmd/Ctrl-Y to switch between Preview and Outline mode. With Cmd/Ctrl-U, pink intelligent guidelines appear that can help with aligning the next point. Learn to work with two hands, one to move the mouse, one to press the Spacebar, Shift, Tab, Alt/Option and Command/Control keys.Īctivate “Snap to point” from the “View” menu. So, learn this first, and then complain with other drawing programs if something is missing. But mostly Illustrator has continued to evolve the pen tool. Some decades ago, this description contained the specifics of Illustrator versus FreeHand, and the details of Fontographer, FontStudio and FontLab.

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