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142 Drawing Lines and Shapes

extended. This pause means you can still edit existing lines if you want, but you won’t do
so unintentionally when you actually mean to sketch new lines.

Brush styles
The FREEHAND & BRUSH TOOL can also be used to apply different brush stroke styles
along the path of the line. Instead of being a solid, fixed-width line, you can change it to
be a variable-width line, or one of a huge range of fancy brush styles, like airbrush, felt tip
marker, and many more. See Brushes for more details.

The Straight Line & Arrow tool

This tool makes it easy to draw single segment straight lines and to add arrow heads and
tails to any lines in a way that is much easier and more powerful than doing the same
thing with the LINE GALLERY (on page 152).

Drawing & editing straight lines
Simply click and drag on the page to draw a straight line. You can click on any existing
line to select it, and once selected you can click-drag on either end to move the end of
the line around.

Adding arrowheads & tails
The InfoBar has two dropdown lists on the left which allow you to choose an arrow head
or tail style for each end of the selected line.

Arrow head
Arrow tail
Arrow head/tail size
Reverse path
The slider on the InfoBar allows you to change the size of the arrow head and tail on the
current selected line. Or you can enter a percentage value into the size text field to the
right of the slider.

Enter a value less than 100% to reduce the size of the arrowhead (and tail), or greater
than 100% to increase. Although the slider only takes the size value up to a maximum of
800%, you can enter percentage values larger than this into the size text field.