Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
In addition to dragging, you also have the following dialog and keyboard
controls on selected widgets:
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To cycle between corner types,
click on the widget while holding down the
Option/Alt key.
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To access the Corners dialog,
use the Direct Selection tool to either double-
click on a widget or to click on the Corners link in the Control panel. With the
Corners dialog, you can use numeric input for the corner radius, choose from
three types—Round, Inverted Round, and Chamfer (beveled)—and whether
the corner should be Absolute (describing a mathematically precise arc
between points, and a bit flattened), or a more natural Relative, which tends
to extend the rounding in a manner you might draw by hand.
The special properties of Rectangles
Rectangles, created only with the Rectangle or Rounded Rectangle tools,
have some specific Live Corner features that become active only when the
rectangle is selected and your active tool is the Rectangle, Rounded
Rectangle, or the Selection tool. If your Transform panel is open or you click
on the
Shape
link in the Control panel to open a proxy dialog, you'll find
additional properties for scale and rotation, along with those features
common to Live Corners. The Control panel itself also contains input fields
for Height, Width, and Corner Type. However, if your Direct Selection tool is
active, a Live Rectangle will look like, and can only be edited like, any other
Live Corner object, making use of only those features found in the Corners
dialog. In the Layers panel, you can identify objects drawn with the Rectangle
tool by looking for the sublayer name <Rectangle> instead of the generic
<Path>.
Use Shape Properties/Rectangle Properties in the Control and Transform
panels to input height and width numerically, as well as the corner radius for
each corner. You can set the Corner Type here by choosing a Corner Type
icon (or Option/Alt-click on a widget to cycle through them). The icon will
update to display the Corner Type you selected. Enable or disable Scale
Rectangle Corners in either panel when you scale a rectangle with a Live
Corner attribute already applied to it. This feature works like the Scale
Strokes & Effects feature; when enabled it will increase or decrease the
corner radius to keep the appearance the same at any size, while it keeps the
radius intact instead when disabled.
