why is it so hard to draw a straight line?

[ollie]

why is it so hard to draw a straight line?



or an unfilled box or circle? took me ages to find this !!

how can I just draw a straight line? connect one corner of a layer to another?

[gmhofmann]

drawing a line is easy:
- choose tool
- click at the start of the line
- move mouse
- click at the end of the line

Done

[Hoogo]

Lol. But I remember that I had also some problems with that when I switched to PL.
There is an actual thread about it.

[bkh]

why is it so hard to draw a straight line?

or an unfilled box or circle? took me ages to find this !!

how can I just draw a straight line? connect one corner of a layer to another?

Can you describe your problem a little further? Did you have problems finding the line/box/circle tools (maybe because they share the same spot on the toolbar)? Anything about their behaviour (creating vector objects/layers, fill and line colours must be applied after drawing)? Do you still think that drawing lines/squares/circles is difficult, once you figured how to do it? What kinds of tools did you expect, and where did you expect to find them?

Thanks

Burkhard.

[Herbert123]

With non-vector tools (like the brush tool):
1) hold down <shift>
2) start drawing
3) let go of the <shift> key, keep mouse button pressed
4) drag the mouse to where you want the straight line to end.

Simple!

[GM1968]

OK... and with Curve Creation ? How can I creat a horizontal and vertical line (shift create curves Beziers) ?

[bkh]

OK... and with Curve Creation ? How can I creat a horizontal and vertical line (shift create curves Beziers) ?

I'd drag a horizontal/vertical guide line and align the Bezier points to it. (In that way, you can also align several non-consecutive curve points or control points.) Depending on what you draw, the grid might also work for you.

Cheers

Burkhard.

[GM1968]

why I did not think of the grid ? Thank you !