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Split lines

Forum|Forum|2 years ago
September 8, 2023
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Hi,
I'm trying to get rid of the horizontal lines at the bottom of each of these shapes.They are simple single lines with strokes There are loads of them. Every time I use knife, scissors or eraser it closes the path again. There are no options in Pathfinder that work without closing the bottom ones and joining all the others.
I must be missing something, here. Not a problem if they're a tad shorter I can always move all the shortenes points at once.
Thanks
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You may select just the upper parts of the path with the Direct Selection tool.

Then hit Cmd-X to cut them, hit the Delete key to delete the remaining lines, hit Cmd-F to paste in front.

Then make a compound path again, if required.

GrangerMortonAuthor

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Oh.... that's good!

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Pathfinders, eraser and knife only work with closed paths and close everything on their own. The scissors tool should not do that.

Can you show us what they look like in the layers panel? Open the layers so we can see what they are: path, group, etc.

GrangerMortonAuthor

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Hi Monika

thanks.... it's a compound path. I'll try the scissor tool again

G