Drawing curved lines?

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December 22, 2016
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I am trying to draw curved lines indicating movements on a map using the pen tool in In-design as instructed in the manuals and online help. This seems to be limited to 's' curves. How can I draw a simple 'c' curve, with one curve in between points?

Barb Binder

Community Expert

Are you trying to learn to draw bezier curves? This is an Ai page, the but Pen tool works the same in InDesign:

How to draw with the Pen, Pencil, or Flare tool in Illustrator

Or do you just need a C? The easiest way to get a C without knowing how to draw curves is to draw a circle (or ellipse):

Select just one anchor point (a selected anchor point is solid, deselect points are hollow) with the Direct Selection tool (the white arrow):

Then tap Delete on the keyboard:

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training

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jane_4523

Participant

Thank you, this was really helpful!

Steve Werner

Community Expert

Sure the "C" shape is a simple smooth curve with just two anchor points:

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freofanAuthor

Participant

Thank you, but I just cannot get a 'c' curve with two anchor points. Whenever I click and drag with the pen tool, no matter from where to where in or outside a straight line, I get an 's', or a crazy loop.

Perhaps you could step me through the process? Thanks

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Anonymous

After clicking and dragging the second anchor point don't release the mouse, but turn the anchor point's handle in the opposite directon.

Or:

When you've dragged the first anchor point from right to left (bottom to top), then drag the second one from left to right top to bottom).

Hope this helps.

Fenja

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