Adobe 65011817 - Fireworks CS4 - Mac Using Manual page 85

USING FIREWORKS CS4
Working with vector objects
3 Move to the location of the next point, and then drag to produce a curve point. Each time you drag, Fireworks
extends the line segment to the new point.
Continue plotting points. If you drag a new point, you produce a curve point; if you just click, you produce a corner
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point.
You can temporarily switch to the Subselection tool to change the location of points and the shape of curves as you
draw. Press Control (Windows) or Command (Mac OS) while dragging a point or point handle with the Pen tool.
Do one of the following:
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• To end the path as an open path, double-click the last point or select another tool. When you select certain tools
and then return to the Pen tool, Fireworks resumes drawing the object at your next click.
• To close the path, click the first point you plotted. The beginning and end points of a closed path are the same.
Convert path segments to straight or curved points
Straight path segments are intersected by corner points. Curved path segments contain curve points.
You can convert a straight segment to a curved segment and vice versa by converting its point.
Convert a corner point to a curve point
1 In the Tools panel, select the Pen tool.
Click a corner point on a selected path and drag away from it.
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The handles extend, curving the adjacent segments.
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