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How to place the TIP of arrowheads exactly where you want them?
Illustrator CS2
I have a document that has an image surrounded by a bunch of text areas. I want to have arrows point from my text to the image, but I want every arrowhead to stop short of the image by 1/16 inch. The lines will need to be angled in most cases, rather than 90° (horizontal or vertical.)
Image is in one (locked) layer, text is in another (locked) layer, and I am trying to create lines with arrowheads in a third layer.
So, I set up a grid of 16, set guidelines 1/16" around the image. Snap to grid ON. Now, when I create a line, that line starts and ends exactly where I want. But when I add arrowheads, using
Filter/Apply Add Arrowheads
or
Effect / Stylize/ Add Arrowhead
some align where I expect, with the tip of the arrow touching the guide line (on the grid), and other arrowheads are longer and overlap or "underlap"(hidden beneath) the image. If I start messing with the scale of the arrowhead at that point, the arrowheads start to look like a hodgepodge of styles.
I have tried working "backwards" using the beginning of the line rather than the endpoint for arrowheads, but the result is the same. I don't see anything in the Help file.
Anyone know how to tell an arrowhead where to go?
TIA,
Dennis
I have a document that has an image surrounded by a bunch of text areas. I want to have arrows point from my text to the image, but I want every arrowhead to stop short of the image by 1/16 inch. The lines will need to be angled in most cases, rather than 90° (horizontal or vertical.)
Image is in one (locked) layer, text is in another (locked) layer, and I am trying to create lines with arrowheads in a third layer.
So, I set up a grid of 16, set guidelines 1/16" around the image. Snap to grid ON. Now, when I create a line, that line starts and ends exactly where I want. But when I add arrowheads, using
Filter/Apply Add Arrowheads
or
Effect / Stylize/ Add Arrowhead
some align where I expect, with the tip of the arrow touching the guide line (on the grid), and other arrowheads are longer and overlap or "underlap"(hidden beneath) the image. If I start messing with the scale of the arrowhead at that point, the arrowheads start to look like a hodgepodge of styles.
I have tried working "backwards" using the beginning of the line rather than the endpoint for arrowheads, but the result is the same. I don't see anything in the Help file.
Anyone know how to tell an arrowhead where to go?
TIA,
Dennis
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sibgig,
I don't want to abandon this question, nor do I have time to check your answer. Big trade show in one week, and not enough hours in the day. When I get back, I'll try it and if it works, I'll add more points and award them. Again, sorry to drag this out. I don't usually, but the point is almost moot as I already had the brochures printed. It will be good to know, though, and I will get back to this.
Dennis
I don't want to abandon this question, nor do I have time to check your answer. Big trade show in one week, and not enough hours in the day. When I get back, I'll try it and if it works, I'll add more points and award them. Again, sorry to drag this out. I don't usually, but the point is almost moot as I already had the brochures printed. It will be good to know, though, and I will get back to this.
Dennis
ok, no problem.
ASKER
I upped this from 250 to 500 points, partially because of the extra long delay in getting back to the question, and partially because it is esoteric knowledge. I'm not sure how you ever figured that out, but you are absolutely correct.
Sibgig, thank you very much.
Dennis
Sibgig, thank you very much.
Dennis
thanks for the upped points... glad i could help
ASKER
Dennis