Straightening a line in Illustrator?

Asked by johns04 (1

) February 27th, 2009

If you take the pen tool, draw a line (without holding down the shift key) the line will be jagged. Now, it used to be in the old Illustrator, if you used the hollow pointer and highlighted the two ends, hit command (or control) + l (L) it would automatically line up the line (not join, it’s already joined). With the new illustrator, that old command doesn’t work anymore. I’ve asked other people who work in Illustrator and even looked in the manual…can’t find an answer. what I’m looking for is the command, not doing it manually.I work on a PC and MAC. It doesn’t matter.

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Do you mean to make the line vertical or horizontal…. or to convert the bezier to a regular anchor point?

PupnTaco (13895

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Direct Selection tool (A), grab one of the anchor points and pull it to level with the other one. If you’re using Illustrator CS4, the anchor will snap to a temporary guide at 90 degrees (so, straight line) from the other anchor. If you’re using an older version the safest thing to do is copy/paste the coordinates.

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It doen’t matter…
manually,you can use the hollow arrow, push one end of the line and straighten it out. That’s not real easy. There used to be a command that did it automatically. That’s what I’m looking for.

johns04 (1

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If there is one, I’ve never used it.

JoeyDesignsStuff (756

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Simple. Select two neighbor anchor points. Press shift+с or pick the convert anchor point tool and click on the !handles! of those two anchor points and get a straight line between them.

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