#Illustrator rounded rectangle upgrade#

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#Illustrator rounded rectangle upgrade#

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The suggestions may seem silly, as may my very posting in this thread. If you want to stretch the rectangle with unchanged radius, DirectSelecting the 4 Anchor Points of the two rounded corners in question and moving them is an option. If you wish to change the radius by a certain factor, you may scale to that factor with Scale Strokes & Effects ticked, then untick and scale further to the final size (if you want to quadruple the size with twce the radius, you may scale twice by a factor 2, with Scale Strokes & Effects ticked and unticked respectively, or the reverse). If you wish to keep the same radius, you may just scale in one go. The corners radii wil change as you stretch the rectangle.įor paths with unchanged proportions, you have the option of pasting and scaling with Scale Strokes & Effects unticked (in addition to Edit>Preferences>General, you may untick and (re)tick more easily in the Transform palette/panel flyout): The user is forced to reproduce the rectangles instead of pasting them and enlargening the rectangles. This is not to gainsay anything that has been said in this thread, but there is a way out, without having to reproduce. Compare that to the underpowered tool-glut clutter that so saturates Illustrator. That's an example of the kind of just-under-the-surface power that a single thoughtfully-designed and thoroughly-integrated drawing interface can yield. This also makes the tool servicable as something Illustrator has never heard of: an elliptical 'protractor' that can be utilized to determine correctly foreshortened line lengths at any viewing angle. This single intuitive and elegently designed tool serves for circles, circular arcs, ellipses, and elliptical arcs, either freehand or with numerical precision and those parameters can be changed any time the user wants. For just one example, compare FreeHand's single Ellipse tool to Illustrator's utterly lame Ellipse and Arc tools combined. Regardless, Convert To Shape is not a reasonable substitute for proper geometric primitives tools. Why would such a feature not be able to use any shaped path (in fact, anything stored as a Symbol)?

But it's ridiculous that it is limited to just rectangles, rounded rectangles, and ellipses. Not that Convert To Shape is usless it isn't. The Convert To Shape Effect is a completely unintuitive, anemic, incomplete, tagged-on workaround for lack of one of the most commonly taken-for-granted drawing feature sets on the planet.

When you use Illustrator's LBO tools (Lines, Boxes, Ovals), you just end up with dumb ordinary paths with no live adjustments. It's just a small part of a much larger lameness: Unlike every other mainstream drawing program, Illustrator has never provided live geometric primitive objects (ellipses, rectangles, polygons, stars with live geometric parameters).