Specifying Drawing Settings - MACROMEDIA FLASH MX 2004-USING FLASH Use Manual

Specifying drawing settings

You can set drawing settings to specify snapping, smoothing, and straightening behaviors when
you use Flash drawing tools. You can change the tolerance setting for each option, and turn each
option off or on. Tolerance settings are relative, depending on the resolution of your computer
screen and the current magnification of the scene. By default, each option is turned on and set to
Normal tolerance.
To set drawing settings:
Select Edit > Preferences (Windows) or Flash > Preferences (Macintosh) and click the
1.
Editing tab.
Under Drawing Settings, select from the following options:
2.
Connect Lines
segment before the end point snaps to the nearest point on the other line. The available
options are Must Be Close, Normal, and Can Be Distant. This setting also controls horizontal
and vertical line recognition—that is, how nearly horizontal or vertical a line must be drawn
before Flash makes it exactly horizontal or vertical. When Snap to Objects is turned on, this
setting controls how close objects must be to snap to one another.
Smooth Curves
Pencil tool when the drawing mode is set to Straighten or Smooth. (Smoother curves are easier
to reshape, whereas rougher curves match the original line strokes more closely.) The selections
are Off, Rough, Normal, and Smooth.
Note: You can further smooth existing curved segments using Modify > Shape > Smooth and
Modify > Shape > Optimize.
Recognize Lines
be before Flash recognizes it as a straight line and makes it perfectly straight. The selections are
Off, Strict, Normal, and Tolerant. If Recognize Lines is off while you draw, you can straighten
lines later by selecting one or more line segments and selecting Modify > Shape > Straighten.
Recognize Shapes
and 90° and 180° arcs for them to be recognized as geometric shapes and redrawn accurately.
The options are Off, Strict, Normal, and Tolerant. If Recognize Shapes is off while you draw,
you can straighten lines later by selecting one or more shapes (for example, connected line
segments) and selecting Modify > Shape > Straighten.
Click Accuracy
item. The options are Strict, Normal, and Tolerant.
determines how close the end of a line being drawn must be to an existing line
specifies the amount of smoothing applied to curved lines drawn with the
defines how nearly straight a line segment drawn with the Pencil tool must
controls how precisely you must draw circles, ovals, squares, rectangles,
specifies how close to an item the pointer must be before Flash recognizes the

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