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Arrows in wrong directions

Forum|Forum|4 years ago
October 13, 2021
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since a long time exist this problem, as user we learned to work with tihs mistake, but i think after so many versions it is time to fix the problem.

See picture attached arrows goes in the wrong direction, it is not logical.

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Gianni MuntoniAuthor

Inspiring

I know the arrows suit the path direction, but i think it is logical suit the direcion left - right, cause if you look on a line you can not see in wich direction the line was drawn.

Met1

Legend

Actually, logically, following the direction it is drawn makes more sense, why would you draw a forward facing arrow backwards?

John Mensinger

Community Expert

We start thinking i have a line in front of me, not designed myself, or a long times ago, i can't not know from what side is original drawed.... So if I visually see a botton-arrow that shows the right side and by clicking comes left side... i think it is strange. If tecnically it is not possible to make this better, ok i understand, if possible mahe changes her my Suggestions: vertically: 1 to 179 degrees right side - 181-359 degrees left side, i suggest 0 degrees right side and 180 degrees left. If a person has always the same result, can remember it, actually it is a random lucky game.

actually it is a random lucky game.

While I do understand your frustration with it, the functioning is not random or (un)lucky in any way. The left arrowhead menu applies an arrowhead to the path's origin, and the right menu applies one to its termination. You may not know which end is which until you apply an arrowhead, but if it comes out wrong, you only need one more click (on the Swap button) to correct it.

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SJRiegel

Legend

Those boxes don't indicate left and right; arrow position is determined by the direction in which the line is drawn.

Here, two strokes drawn staring from opposite sides, with the same arrowhead applied.

Kurt Gold

Community Expert

That is normal behaviour. It depends on the path direction where the arrow is placed.

You can change the path direction in the Object menu > Path submenu.

Or you can use the little button to the right of the arrow dropdown field in the Stroke palette to invert the arrow.

Anna Lander

Inspiring

The first question in such a case is what is your path direction. The arrows suit the path direction, not exactly left-to-right. So, if you draw your line right-to-left, the arrow will direct to the left.
You can change the path direction using Object > Path > Reverse Path Direction.

To say something more, we need to know your (exact) Illustrator version and OS.

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