Adobe illustrator 10 Manuale Utente

4 Continue smoothing until the stroke or path is the desired smoothness.

The erase tool lets you remove a portion of an existing path or stroke. You can use the 
erase tool on paths (including brushed paths), but not on text or meshes. 

1 Select the erase tool  .

2 Drag the tool along the length of the path segment you want to erase (not across the 
path). For best results, use a single, smooth, dragging motion.

Anchor points are added to the ends of the new paths.

You can set preferences for the pencil tool and smooth tool. The preferences include 
tolerances that control how sensitive the pencil and smooth tools are to the movement of 
your mouse or graphics-tablet stylus, and whether you want the path to remain selected 
after you draw it.

The tolerance is calculated in number of pixels. The larger the number of pixels you 
specify, the smoother and less complex are the paths.

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1 Double-click the pencil tool   or smooth tool  .

2 Use the Fidelity and Smoothness sliders or enter values in the text boxes:

Fidelity controls the distance (in pixels) in which curves can stray from the smoothed 

mouse or tablet data when using the tool. The lower the fidelity value, the more 
angular the curves; the higher the value, the smoother the curves. 

Smoothness controls the amount of smoothing (by percentage) applied when you use 

the tool. The lower the smoothness value, the coarser the path appears; the higher the 
value, the smoother the path.

3 To keep the path selected after you draw it, select Keep Selected. This option is selected 
by default.

4 To edit a path only when you are within a certain distance of it, select Edit Selected 
Paths, and enter a distance.

5 Click OK.

Use the pen tool to draw a path that you can’t draw using the simpler drawing tools. 
The pen tool lets you create straight lines and smooth, flowing curves with great precision.