Drawing straight lines, ovals, and rectangles 137
Drawing straight lines, ovals, and
rectangles
You can use the Line, Oval, and Rectangle tools to easily create these basic geometric shapes.
The Oval and Rectangle tools create stroked and filled shapes. The Rectangle tool lets you
create rectangles with square or rounded corners.
To draw a straight line, oval, or rectangle:
1. Select the Line, Oval, or Rectangle tool.
2. Select Window > Properties and select stroke and fill attributes in the Property inspector.
See “Using the Stroke Color and Fill Color controls in the Property inspector”
on page 115.
3. For the Rectangle tool, specify rounded corners by clicking the Round Rectangle modifier
and entering a corner radius value. A value of zero creates square corners.
4. Drag on the Stage. If you are using the Rectangle tool, press the Up Arrow and Down
Arrow keys while dragging to adjust the radius of rounded corners.
For the Oval and Rectangle tools, Shift-drag to constrain the shapes to circles and squares.
To specify a specific size of Oval or Rectangle in pixels, press the Alt key (Windows) or
Option key (Macintosh) with the Oval or Rectangle tool selected, and click the Stage to
display the Oval and Rectangle Settings dialog box.
■ For ovals, you can specify the width and height in pixels, and whether to draw the oval
from the center.
■ For rectangles, you can specify the width and height in pixels, the radius of the
rectangle corners for rounded corners, and whether to draw the rectangle from the
center.
For the Line tool, Shift-drag to constrain the angle of lines to multiples of 45°.
NOTE
You cannot set fill attributes for the Line tool.
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