Choosing line joins and end caps
Pop-up menus in the Pen manager let you specify the type of line
joins and end caps. Line joins determine appearance of two path seg-
ments that meet at a corner. End caps specify the shape of the end-
points of an open path.
Line joins
Canvas has three types of line joins: miter, round, and bevel. For pre-
set pen strokes, Canvas indicates the type of line join in the scroll list
on the Pen tab.
Miter Joins path segments with sharp corners that extend to a single
point. When you choose miter joins, an additional pop-up menu lets
you set the miter limit in degrees (5, 10, 30, 60, or 90 degrees).
The miter limit setting tells Canvas which corners are too tight to
miter; Canvas bevels these corners instead. In other words, if the
miter limit is set to 10 degrees, and two path segments join at an
angle of 9 degrees, Canvas bevels the corner rather than creating a
miter join. The miter limit lets you prevent long, spiked corners that
might result as a combination of a wide pen size and a small angle.
Pen manager
These settings let you create
Calligraphic pen types.
A Choose Calligraphic in the
pop-up menu.
B Specify weight, width, and
angle of the pen nib. You can
set the units of measure for
these settings using the Prefer-
ences command in the File
menu.
C Configure line joins and end
caps using the pop-up menus;
see the next section for informa-
tion on these settings.
D Sample window of the cur-
rent pen settings.
E Edit the size and angle of
the nib interactively in this edit
window (see inset).
F Use the zoom buttons to in-
crease or reduce the size of the
nib in the edit window. This
does not affect the actual pen
size.
In the edit window, you can
drag control points to adjust
the pen nib.
G Drag to change the width
and angle of the nib.
H Drag to change the weight
and angle of the nib.
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B
D
C
G
H
E
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