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Drawing Lines and Shapes 143

Reverse path
Press the REVERSE PATH button on the InfoBar to switch around the head and tail
of the selected line.

Adding more line segments
Lines created with the STRAIGHT LINE TOOL are of course fully compatible with the other
drawing tools. So if you want to add more segments to a line, make it curved, or perhaps
even turn it into a closed shape, use the SHAPE EDITOR TOOL.

The Shape Editor tool

The SHAPE EDITORTOOL is the main tool used for both creating precise curves,
lines, and shapes, as well as editing or altering lines and shapes.

Add/Change/Edit Indicator
Make curve
Make line
Smooth join
Sharp join
Break at points
Delete points
Reverse paths
Positions of handles
Smoothing

The InfoBar, shown above, provides a wide range of controls as well as precise numeric
control.

All lines and shapes in Xara Web Designer Premium are made from a sequence of curve
and line sections. Curves are sometimes called "Bézier" curves after the mathematician
who first described them.