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|Next, click the ''Move Control Points'' button and pull out control points straight to the midpoint of each side of the rounding tool as you see here. Each node has 2 control points – if the corner doesn't bow out, you've got the wrong one. Push it aside, then pull out the other, then replace the wrong one back over the node. | |Next, click the ''Move Control Points'' button and pull out control points straight to the midpoint of each side of the rounding tool as you see here. Each node has 2 control points – if the corner doesn't bow out, you've got the wrong one. Push it aside, then pull out the other, then replace the wrong one back over the node. | ||
Believe it or not, you're finished – just click End Editing, pull away the tool, and there's your rounded corner. You will find that this will precisely line up to the arc of a circle with a radius of (surprise, surprise) 25 pts. | Believe it or not, you're finished – just click End Editing, pull away the tool, and there's your rounded corner, as seen on the far right. You will find that this will precisely line up to the arc of a circle with a radius of (surprise, surprise) 25 pts. | ||
|[[Image:RoundingFrame11.png]] | |[[Image:RoundingFrame11.png]] | ||
|[[Image:RoundingFrame12.png]] | |[[Image:RoundingFrame12.png]] | ||
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====Finishing Up==== | ====Finishing Up==== | ||
All that remains is to do the other 2 corners with our rounding tool, then, if you were working with something other than a text frame, ''Convert To'' and load your text and finish your layout. | All that remains is to do the other 2 corners with our rounding tool, then, if you were working with something other than a text frame, ''Convert To'' and load your text and finish your layout. | ||
Using this method, you can now use the Line tab, the Color tab to easily change these features. You can resize as much as you want, but try not to stretch in one direction a lot more than another, since you will distort this circular arc of the corner – this is also true of arcs made with the Round Corners feature. | Using this method, you can now use the Line tab, the Color tab to easily change these features. You can resize as much as you want, but try not to stretch in one direction a lot more than another, since you will distort this circular arc of the corner – this is also true of arcs made with the Round Corners feature. |
Revision as of 01:25, 23 April 2008
Beginning Transformation
Making a Rounding Tool - With a Square
Finishing Up
All that remains is to do the other 2 corners with our rounding tool, then, if you were working with something other than a text frame, Convert To and load your text and finish your layout.
Using this method, you can now use the Line tab, the Color tab to easily change these features. You can resize as much as you want, but try not to stretch in one direction a lot more than another, since you will distort this circular arc of the corner – this is also true of arcs made with the Round Corners feature.