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  • Illustrator CS3 vs Freehand

    #1
    Is anyone using Illy CS3 yet? It's possible that my question would apply to CS2 as well I guess.

    Here's what I'm wondering. I'm new to Illy - been a Freehand user since Aldus Freehand version 1. Yes I'm old. Well, I'm forced to switch to Illy and I'm having trouble with its editing.

    In Freehand, Let's say I have a single straight line and I want to make it a curved line. In Freehand I just need to hold down the Option key while clicking the line the I can bend it however I need to. This will then give me control handle I can use to tweak it.

    Illy doesn't do this of course. At least CS2 doesn't do it. Does CS3 do it? Has Adobe applied any of Freehand functionality into Illustrator?

    This may seem like a silly problem but it has been affecting productivity. Can anyone help?
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  • #2
    I am a Freehand user as well (at home) and an Illustrator user at work and miss this feature as well. I'll be getting CS3 next week, but don't hold out much hope.

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    • #3
      Despite some nice improvements in Illustrator when dealing with lines and points, I want to say "no," but I haven't tried holding down any modifier key for that purpose. I didn't see any such option in demo videos either from someone like Terry White (who I'm sure would have pointed that out).

      I'll give it a try when I get home and let you know, though.

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      • #4
        Select the convert anchor point tool (one of the options in the pen tool menu), or hold down shift + C. Click on a point and drag away, you'll curve the line.

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        • #5
          Yeah, that would do something similar. However, in Freehand and I think Flash (haven't used Flash in a while), I think you can just grab any section of the line and drag it around to curve and warp it. Although I guess you can do that too in Illy with the Direct selection tool.
          Last edited by Patrick Shannon; 04-27-2007, 06:26 PM.

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          • #6
            I just received my copy of CS3. Woooooo Hoooooo!!!!! I'll check it once it finishes the install.

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            • #7
              Nope. They didn't add that functionality - at least not as far as I can tell. That sucks because it comes in VERY handy sometimes.

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              • #8
                If you go in, at least this is where it was on mine, under the scale tool (you know, when they have that little caret in that tool in the toolbar which means there's more things under that tool), there's a black arrow that looks much like the selection tool with a curve above it. It's called the 'reshape tool.' It does that very thing. If you have some sort of complex shape, you have to direct select the particular line you want to curve down, at least that's what I had to do with the rectangle I was experimenting with, because otherwise it was grabbing the whole rectangle. It also creates selection handles at the lowest point so that you can grab them and change the curve that way as well.

                Hope that helps.

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