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kevinhamil
Participant
November 29, 2012

Just did a quick search and found this answer after looking here... it's not a one-click button, but it's simple to make radius changes as you're creating a new rounded rectangle. Check it out.

http://adobe.ly/Kx7YJE

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    Abe_Z
    Participant
    September 8, 2012

    Go to prefernces>general>corner radius. I dont understand why they wouldn't make it

    one click button like Photoshop. Does anyone know if this was fixed in CS6?

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    dougster127
    Participant
    April 25, 2012

    glad to see I'm not the only one who couldn't instinctively find the corner radius tool.

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    eubean525
    Known Participant
    March 2, 2012

    It's counter-productive to not be able to change a corner radius on an object once you've drawn it. By the very nature of the fact that you state that you can't do so means you are absolving yourself from fixing this antiquated quirk. Lets say you have a series of rounded rectangles in one document and need to duplicate them in another document but at a different scale. The user is forced to reproduce the rectangles instead of pasting them and enlargening the rectangles. The corners radii wil change as you stretch the rectangle. It's lousy and primitive.

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      Paul_pk
      Participant
      March 29, 2012

      Agree with you. This is a lame.

      JETalmage
      JETalmage
      Inspiring
      March 29, 2012

      It's just a small part of a much larger lameness: Unlike every other mainstream drawing program, Illustrator has never provided live geometric primitive objects (ellipses, rectangles, polygons, stars with live geometric parameters). When you use Illustrator's LBO tools (Lines, Boxes, Ovals), you just end up with dumb ordinary paths with no live adjustments.

      The Convert To Shape Effect is a completely unintuitive, anemic, incomplete, tagged-on workaround for lack of one of the most commonly taken-for-granted drawing feature sets on the planet. Not that Convert To Shape is usless; it isn't. But it's ridiculous that it is limited to just rectangles, rounded rectangles, and ellipses. Why would such a feature not be able to use any shaped path (in fact, anything stored as a Symbol)?

      Regardless, Convert To Shape is not a reasonable substitute for proper geometric primitives tools. For just one example, compare FreeHand's single Ellipse tool to Illustrator's utterly lame Ellipse and Arc tools combined. This single intuitive and elegently designed tool serves for circles, circular arcs, ellipses, and elliptical arcs, either freehand or with numerical precision; and those parameters can be changed any time the user wants. This also makes the tool servicable as something Illustrator has never heard of: an elliptical "protractor" that can be utilized to determine correctly foreshortened line lengths at any viewing angle.

      That's an example of the kind of just-under-the-surface power that a single thoughtfully-designed and thoroughly-integrated drawing interface can yield. Compare that to the underpowered tool-glut clutter that so saturates Illustrator.

      JET

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