Carl Aron Carls wrote:
Hello,
I want to draw some sketches by hand into my documents. The freehand
feature is judt perfectly
integrated, but as i draw lines, the corners are somehow smoothed out.
Is that a known issue?
Aron
That's the way it is supposed to work. Draw is a vector-graphics
program, which means that it creates images by drawing mathematical
shapes -- lines, curves, polygons, ellipses, etc.
This means that it is really great at drawing things that you would
normally use a ruler and compass to draw -- like in drafting class. But
it is not so great at rendering arbitrarily complex shapes like human
faces.
The Freehand tool does what it does through the use of Bezier curves. I
won't explain how those work here -- I'll leave you to Google that --
but basically it "drops" anchor points every so often along the path you
trace out with your mouse and then draws smooth curves to join those
points. It's been a while since I played with it, but you can get
somewhat better results by increasing the zoom level and also perhaps by
moving your mouse more slowly. If you need a sharp corner, the best bet
is to click to terminate the line and then start another line from that
point. I think you can also specify the behavior of the line at
particular anchor points via a dialog from a right click. Look in the
help for more details.
--
Rod
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