Drawing Rectangles With Curved Corners - MACROMEDIA FREEHAND MX 11 Use Manual

To draw a rectangle, ellipse, or line from its center:
In the Tools panel, select the Ellipse tool, or select the Rectangle or Line tool from its
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pop-up menu.
Hold down Alt (Windows) or Option (Macintosh) as you drag the respective tool.
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Drawing rectangles with curved corners

You can precisely edit the curvature of rectangle corners by using the Object panel. The corners of
a rectangle can be uniform, or you can edit corners individually by unlocking them in the Object
panel. Locked corners edit uniformly, even if some of the remaining corners are unlocked.
You can also edit corners manually by using the subselect tool to drag radius handles of a
rectangle.
To draw rectangles with curved corners:
In the Tools panel, if the Rectangle tool is not showing, select it from its pop-up menu.
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Double-click the Rectangle tool.
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In the Rectangle Tool dialog box, enter a value or use the slider to adjust the corner radius,
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from 0 for a standard 90° corner to 100 for extremely curved corners.
Click OK.
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Draw the rectangle.
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To adjust the corners of a selected rectangle uniformly:
In the Tools panel, click the Subselect tool.
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Select the rectangle.
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Drag a radius handle.
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