Shouldn't make a difference with or without text on the path.Īn easier option may be to select the path via the Layer Panel, then copy it. An inner graphic (any shape or form) provides a clipping path and creates the. Resize at constant aspect ratio, or apply one of the advanced interaction levels to your image. I cant cut it or join it to any other path. It looks like a path when I add stroke, but it does not behave like one.
Ive tried every permutation of copy and paste I renamed the path to path. This is a great way to incorporate photos, clip art, or any other image content in your drawings. The previous answer to the same question in Nov 2009 does not work for me.
If you hold Option while using this tool will switch to the Direct Selection Tool (white pointer without the plus sign) Any graphic or shape may be used to crop or frame a photo or image. You can pick it from the Tools panel if you click and hold the mouse on the Direct Selection Tool (white pointer) and then you don't have to hold Option when clicking with it. The plus sign in this case means that another selection tool is being used called Group Selection Tool. Is the plus sign there to let the user know the tool is in an option mode?. Holding down Option, while using the Direct Selection Tool, adds a little plus sign to the side of the tool, as there is next to the pen tool when you are in a position to add points. The option-click seems a reliable solution. So maybe it was neither truly a text or a line path?īased on my experimenting, when the path has a stroke value assigned, the Option-Click does not work. I had deleted any text I inadvertently typed on this path and set a stroke line to the 'text path.' Maybe I confused the path identity by asking it to masquerade with a line stroke? This step hid the text handles.
In case this helps someone in the future: The objects have to be evenly distributed laong the path, and they have to adjust themselves to an. In this case I have tried aligning squares and triangles along a curved path. It could just as well be objects of different sorts. Here's what I think prevented the conversion previously. In my case, I am trying to align and distribute text-boxes along a path. Is the plus sign there to let the user know the tool is in an option mode?
This did not work for me from the layers panel at all. Then employed the 1) Option-Click with the Direct Selection Tool, and the commands to 2) Copy and Paste in front back, where ever, converts the type path back to a line path. Once I added text back to the path and the stroke color vanished.