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The appearance of the path didn't change at all, but now I can drag any handle independently. First, I can select all the points by clicking this button, and then I can click this button to change them to corner points. And PathScribe lets me do that very easily. Well, for that I'd need to convert all these smooth points to corner points. Let's say I wanted to be able to control any segment without affecting any of the others. So if I select a point and drag any of the handles I change both adjacent segments. And if I move my cursor with the PathScribe tool over any of the points, I can see that they're all smooth points. Next, I'll deselect and scroll down to this spiral path. I'm going to leave it turned off and close the dialog box. Just press Return or Enter when you have the tool to open the Preferences dialog box and you would turn on this choice here, Slow-Drag is Default.

If you really like Slow-Drag, then you can have it turned on in the PathScribe Preferences. This way you can make very precise small adjustments in a way that would be very hard to do at normal speed.

#Astute graphics plugins too big dysplay mac

You just click and then hold down the Control key, and yes, that's the Control key on the Mac too, not just Windows, and then drag. With it you can drag points or handles 10 times slower than normal. Another useful feature for making precise changes to your paths is the Slow-Drag feature. I can also unlock a handle with the PathScribe tool just by turning off the Connector feature and then dragging the handle wherever I want it.

Note that if I switch to the Direct Selection Tool, I can move the handle in any direction, and that's because the Connector doesn't apply when you're using native Illustrator tools. So, for example, with the Connector enabled, I can drag this handle and when it gets close to being in alignment with the straight segment, it snaps. And the purpose of the Connector is to help you create nice smooth transitions between curved and straight segments by snapping the direction handle of the curved segment into alignment with the straight segment. It's the first button in the top row of the panel, right here, and you can click to disable or enable it. Now let's look at that Connector feature. And instead of dragging near the middle of the segment, I'll click near one of the corners, then hold Shift and drag, and I still get symmetrical handles, but now they're not connected to the adjacent path segments, so I can drag them in any direction. But for now I'll undo, so I get my rectangle back. That's called the Connector feature and we'll look at it a bit more in just a minute. When I select one, you can see the letter C that indicates the segment is connected to the adjacent ones. And, in fact, these direction handles will stay locked in their orientation, no matter how I drag them. These handles create a smooth transition from the curve to the adjacent straight segments. If I undo and click on the middle of the segment and then hold the Shift key and start dragging I get symmetrical handles. Note that where I click determines the direction of these handles. And you can see that as I drag those handles are automatically created and the segment changes from straight to curved. The path stays right under my cursor, which feels a lot more natural than dragging Bezier handles away from a path. I don't need to select this path at all to start reshaping it. As I move my cursor over the anchor points in the rectangle I can see that, naturally, there are corner points. I'll open the PathScribe panel by going to the Window menu and choosing VectorScribe, PathScribe panel. Even if you're a long-time Illustrator user you may never have even imagined the kind of control that you can have with PathScribe. With PathScribe you can intuitively reshape paths and quickly convert between smooth points and corner points and you can select and change path direction handles with extreme precision and ease. The PathScribe features in Astute Graphics' VectorScribe give you a whole new level of control over editing Bezier paths in Illustrator.