Line Tool: dashed lines

Can I make a dashed line using the line tool? if not, does Photoshop allow one to make/get a dashed line? How, please.
Thanks.

>you can set your brush spacing in the brushes palette and stroke a line (or path) created with the line tool. that's how you do dotted/dashed lines in photoshop.
And you can change the Angle Jitter to "direction" so the dashes follow the direction of the path. Works well with curved lines.
STILL... best is to use Illustrator.

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Showing grid lines as dashed lines

Dear All,
i am using a waveform chart to plot my data .. i want to insert grid inside my chart .
There are 3 different options for inserting grids in d chart .
is dere any way i can change the style of lines of grids ?? i want to see them as dashed lines rather than a continous line ...
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Ritesh

Hi,
the solution to it was a bit complicated .. i had to search for examples to get my data on the wavefrom graph...
thing is like dis. i have to store the data of different channels on different clusters and join the clustes using Build Array ...
Now dat i am able to show the data on graph(atleast) its not showing it continously .. the graph is plotting all d data at the starting point, i.e 0 and not moving forward ..
I am posting the Block Diagram as well as the Output that i am getting ..
Regarding Block Diargram - I am reading a text file containing the waveform data.. it has N number of rows.. each row has 4 columns containing data of 4 different channels .
i read the file "line by line" and store the data in 4 diff arrays(b,c,d,e). then i cluster these 4 arrays separately and build array using dese 4 clusters .. and d output of the array is plotted on the graph den..
Pl. have a look at it and see if dere's any solution to it ..
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When using the line tool, The line doesn't show up in the box

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I would have thought that was impossible!
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Which product, Illustrator?

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Using the line tool in my tools pallet yields an arrow. Are there other arrow typesbesides the default? I would like a double ended arrow for indicating measurements on a technical drawing.
Also, using the Pencil tool, I'd like to be able to draw in dashed or dotted lines.
Any ideas?
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BTW, u8sing the word "line" in the search function yielded zero responses. Not sure how this could be. Must be doing something wrong there too.

Suggest you try Adobe Illustrator, alone, or together with Ps.
In Ai there are similar line ends (arrows etc.) AND easy dashed lines AND perfect dashed line ends and corners if desired.
All better for a "technical" drawing.
Often even better, with dimensioning, is Visio.
They all "play" well together.

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When I try to apply a dashed line onto my line in CS4, it creates a dashed line...but not entirely. Where there are gaps, there appears a really really thin black line instead of just space. I'm setting my weight at .25, my miter limit at 4, and my dashed line at 12 pt.
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Can Flash create dashed line with blunt not rounded dashes ?

Hi,
using Flash8
I can select line tool and dashed line in properties and draw a dashed line and get a line of sausages. How do I get a line of dashes without rounded ends to each dash ?
Line option has end caps option with None (gives straight or blunt tip to line, round gives rounded tip .
Draw a line with None and its got blunt ends, select it and choose dashed line option and it gets round ends to the dashes, the end cap option is greyed out !
Are dashed lines with blunt dashes now possible again with CS4, a forum poster also found that CS3 no longer gave blunt dashes ?
Why do I ask:-
I am trying to bring a map into Flash8 from Illustrator (Illus version 10 as it allows blunt tip lines to remain blunt it was said on the forum)... which has blunt ends to roads and has blunt type dashed lines. The roads remain blunt..GOOD !..but the dashed lines become what looks like a solid line. BAD !
I do a right click - break apart, then double click one of those now solid lines that should be dashed, and I am able to select a portion of the line, it is no longer a continual line as drawn in Illustrator. Properties shows it as solid line. Flash8 obviously having a problem with supporting Illustrator 10 dashed line then !
Select dashed in properties box and I get a portion of the line as sausage dashes, but working my way along the line doing each bit sees a far from correct dashed line result as sausages dont start stop evenly as each line is a separate entity and ignores the previous line.
Looks like I shall have to try and draw the line as one long line again in flash but unless I can give it blunt dashes when done, there is no point even trying that method, hence my question.
Would the latest Illustrator and Flash versions (CS4) allow blunt type dashed lines to appear in Flash ?
This is crucial for bringing maps into Flash.
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Hi, I have this FREEHAND MX file which uses the font DAX
(converted to paths). There is a dashed line in the layout.
After exporting the file as MACINTOSH EPS, I have distilled
it on ADOBE DISTILLER 6.0.
In the PDF file all the "I" and "L" letters became dashed.
Most weird of all, if I use different patterns of dash for that
line, the "I" and "L" letters immitate it.
The same MACINTOSH EPS can be rasterized in PHOTOSHOP. In
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Albird wrote:
> The same MACINTOSH EPS that generates the weird PDF
could be imported to
> ILLUSTRATOR CS2 and saved as PDF without any problems,
so I think that's my
> solution for now.
I looked at your files. That has to be one of the strangest
thing I've ever
seen in FH. The same thing happens here when printing to
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stroke is
being applied, but as you say, it picks up the size of the
dashes in the
stroke.
I'm glad the AI CS2 route works for you. I had saved the FH
file back to
FH9, opened that in Illustrator 10 and saved as PDF. The same
striped
letters were present in the PDF!
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lettering into a
composite path, or changing the dashed stroke to a solid
stroke, or changing
the fill of the lettering to a different color, or distorting
the shape of
the letters.
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the font
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they may have
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him know what's
happening.
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Double-click the line drawing tool. Now, at the bottom of the toolbar, select the line box (just above the big 'T'. Now select the black-and-white pattern palette (the second one down). Choose a suitable pattern - I suggest starting with the third down in the first column.
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I think that at least one of Mark Spencer's Mac Break Studio episodes is on paint brushes and/or shapes. Do a search.
There is a very good Motion discussion group in these forums. There is also a good one at Creative Cow (at which Mark Spencer is a frequent contributor).
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