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How can i make a dashed line with the rectangle tool?

With Muse 7, you can use the 'SimpleLine' widget posted on Muse exchange to get a horizontal or vertical line, with options for solid, dots, or dashes.
http://muse.adobe.com/exchange-library/lances-sample-widgets

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How do I make a dotted line in Illustrator?

I've figured out how to make a dashed line (under Stroke), but how do I make a dotted line? Little round circles, one after the other that I can resize, turn into a circle, stick to a path?
Thanks

The string of pearls was done on CS2
The orange "pearls" had a stroke weight of 40 pt, Dash 0, Gap 42 and a new black stroke behind with a weight of 42 pt.
Then the stroke was copied, coloured just white and moved a bit to make the white "highlights". Weight 10 pt, Dash 0, Gap 42.
I suppose, if one could be bothered, it would be possible to make a string of pearls with alternating big and small pearls by using a combination of dash settings on New Strokes. Should work all right as long as the Dash is a constant or an exact multiple. I can't be bothered!
I don't understand that bit about having the last gap as 0. The pearls came out fine with just one setting for the dash and one for the gap. The other boxes weren't filled in.

Dashed Line - Dashes Move?

I'm trying to make a dashed line move, sort of like what you see in photoshop when you outline something. Basically I want the dashes to move along a path.
Usually I can come up with these solutions pretty quickly, but I'm not able to on this one. Maybe I'm not as versed in the "shape" behaviors as I should be.
Originally I thought I could just ramp the offset of the dashes, but that's not an option. I'm hoping I don't have to make a movie of a dash moving left to right, and use that as the source of my pen. That seems a little intensive, but may work.
Anyone have a quick idea on how this should be done?

Adam:
That's helpful, but I'm trying to get the dashes to actually move (all of them) along the path, like in a loop. Like marching ants on a path. As one disappears on the end, another will come on at the start. You know?
The replicator is a good idea, but I can't get the sequence behavior to follow the path. It only allows the position to be an xyz point.
Using Motion Path wont allow me to align the angle.
I feel like I should use the shape behaviors, but that won't allow me to move anything along the path, much like the limitation with the replicator.
I keep feeling like there should be an offset that I can move, but there isn't.
I'm seriously thinking I need to animate one dash moving left to right and make that the source of the brush. Right?

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.

Disappeared dashed lines options

very often when I want to adjust the spacing for the dashed lines in Indesign cs6, the options disappear in the stroke flyout panel.
Strangely, it remains disappeared for the specified file forever. The workaround that I do for this is that I open a new file, make the dashed lines as desired, (yeah, the options come in a new file), then copy paste it. What exactly is causing this weird behaviour?

arjun2 wrote:
Here's my screenshot with everything selected. I have yet to trash my preferences. currently learning to backup my shortcuts . Does this problem occur in the latest version of indesign which is CC?
I'm always beware of new versions, often they are heavier and take longer time to process, e.g. photoshop cs6 i found slower than cs5
You haven't select the Dashed Line at the bottom of the Type options.
You have 2 different stroke weights selected, that's why weight shows as nothing.
Bold part: That's just not true for everyone, in fact I find each version of all the Adobe suites to run perfectly fine - there may be something you need to change on your system to get the programs to work better. But I never notice any difference from version to version regarding longer times to process.

Dashed lines in Flash CS3

Hi all, Is there a way to make the end caps of an imported
dashed line (say from Illustrator or Canvas) straight? They seem to
always come out round.
I have tried making them straight lines instead of dashed
both before and after importing them to Flash but the end caps
still come out rounded. Flash does not let me change the end caps
of dashed lines at all. So even if I set it correctly when it's
still a straight line, as soon as I turn it into a dashed line, it
turns round and I can't change it.
Very frustrating.
Thanks for your help,
Aryeh

Seems like an oversight from Adobe to me. Submit a bug report
at the following address, and maybe they will add that
functionality.
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform

How do I create a dashed line growing longer?

Hi all,
I want to create a dashed line that grows longer. I made two keyframes (at frame 1 and frame 15) with dashed lines of different lengths. Motion or Classic Tween just makes the small line move to the right and then turn into the long line immediately at frame 15.
Shape Tween gets me the closest (actually shows a line growing), however, it turns into a solid line in the intermediate steps.
My next idea is to create a mask that slowly reveals more of the line. Is that the best solution?
Thanks!

yes, use a tweened mask. that's the easiest solution.

Dashed line "Dash" & "Gap" options

Hey all, looking for a CS3 tip here.
I use a lot of dashed strokes, and I've found that when I enter values in the Dash and Gap boxes, I later can't delete the values entirely. I can delete whatever I entered, but Illustrator won't leave the box blank - it now fills the box with 0 point.
For example, I create a path, turn on Dashed Line, then enter 2 point Dash, 1 point Gap, and accidentally Tab to the third box. Once the focus has been put on that third box, it won't remain blank, the best I can have is 0 point. So now continuing the example, my stroke is 2 point dash, 1 point gap, 0 point dash (slightly visible on screen, invisible in print), 1 point gap, and repeat. The net effect is that it looks like a 2 point dash followed by a 2 point gap.
Any way to reset the box to contain NO information? It's bugging me because once I've created one of these "bad" dashed strokes, I either have to fudge my values to make it look right, or quit illustrator and start over because the bad values are persistent any time I turn on the dashed line checkbox until Illustrator is quit.

I'm deleting everything in the box, and just to be sure, I've tried clicking in the box and hitting command-a to select all, then hitting delete. But whether I do it that way or drop the cursor in at the end tap delete repeatedly, it still auto-fills "0 pt" when I leave the box.
As to the second point, I always try emptying the boxes from right back to the left. I get the effect you describe if I empty the first box - they all reset to blank and the "dashed line" checkbox changes to unchecked. But the moment I try to put a dashed line on a path again, it refills with the previous setting, including the 0 pt entries on the right most boxes that I would hope to stay blank.
I take it your installation doesn't replicate the behavior I'm experiencing? I will be upgrading to Leopard just as soon as I have a slump - I can just wait to see if a clean installation of Illustrator takes care of it.
Thanks.

Dashed line showing up on placed psd in indesign

Please help! I created flyer in indesign and placed some PSD graphics into the indesign file. However when those files are placed on top of a "dotted" line—after printed a white "dashed" line appears. (the line does not appear in digital file at all—only in print file, so I had to post a crappy scan, but I think it gets the point across).
Any insight to this issue?
Much Thanks!
Desiree

Okay, another (probably bad) suggestion: Make a new 'rich black' swatch and change all your problem objects to use the new swatch.
This screenshot is using a mix of C=20 M=10 Y=10 K=100 that I threw together for a sample. The left block is the 'rich black' and the right is 100% K only. InDesign displayed both as the same color, but when exported to PDF, the difference was visible (from which the screenshot was captured).
Other mixes I've found referenced elsewhere are:
C=80 M=80 Y=70 K=90
C=35 M=45 Y=35 K=100
C=45 M=35 Y=35 K=100
If you were using an outside vendor, I'd suggest getting in contact with them to find out what their preferred blend is. Otherwise, since you seem ot be doing things in-house, you can make a test page with a variety of mixes to determine which one produces the level of black that you want from your Konica.
If you are using a Mac, you may be able to locate an applescript code on the forums which will allow you to globally change all objects using the [Black] swatch with another swatch in your list.
YMMV
-mt
And Peter responded while I was messing around. Lots of combinations.
Aaannnd.. perhaps I should have read the remainder of the posts instead of jumping into this... ^_~
Hope it all helps get this resolved for you, anyway!
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Dashed line in Health app?

Hi,
I tracked a run today using Endomondo that posted the calories burned into Health in iOS8. However, the chart is sowing a dashed line as opposed to a solid line as it has done in the past
Does anyone know what this means? The calories have been shared with all the other connected apps, so I'm not too concerned, I'm just curious!
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The dashed line corresponds to gaps in the data, spanning points in time where you did not log any activity. For example, I cycled on Oct. 16 & 17, so the Week view shows a solid line between those adjacent days for which there was recorded activity. I did not cycle again until Oct. 20, so there is a data point showing that day's activity on the 20th and a dashed line connecting to the previous data point (on the 17th).
This is actually to prevent confusion about the meaning of the lines spanning the points. The dashed line makes it easier to see that I did not cycle in those intermediate days, while still allowing me to see at-a-glance that my activity on the 20th was less strenuous (since the line slopes downward) than that previous point back on the 17th.

HI,Can the smartforms output the windows box as the type of dashed Line?

My customer let me Print the windows box with the dashed line in smartforms, but i searched many method ,all failed,anybody know how to do it?

hi,Bala Muthu Raja
thanks for your information.
but i means i want to output the dashed line box for the windows as following......
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^^^^windows^^^^
adjusting the line width just make the box line become wild or thin.
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Illustrator ignoring dashed lines in PDF

I have exported a dashed line from some CAD software (KASEMAKE) as a PDF.
When viewed in acrobat and zoomed in, you can clearly see the dashes.
When opening in Illustrator it comes in as one solid line.
Corel Draw opens it correctly too.
I cannot find any import settings for bringing in a PDF in Illustrator. I have uploaded the PDF file to a dropbox so that people can see it. https://www.dropbox.com/s/g130frx64terr7d/less.pdf
Any help appreciated.
Thanks.

Open a blank AI file. Place the PDF (not open), making sure LINK is checked.
Once placed, go to Object > Flatten Transparency and make sure the slider is all the way over to Vector.
Then Object > Clipping Mask > Release and then Ungroup and remove the unneeded box, and you will have your line.
--OB

Dashed line with jdk1.1.8?

Hello
Does anyone know how to make dashed lines with jdk 1.1.8? Yes, that means no Graphics 2D nor BasicStoroke class.
Also how do you make the line wider with 1.1.8?
I appreciate any response. Thanks
michiko

int lineLength = 100;
for(int i = 0; i < lineLength ; i = i + 6){
g.drawLine(i,i,i+3,i+3);
how about that?

Dashed lines in illustrator cs5

Hi,
Is it possible to make lines dashed and dotted like you can in indesign cs5 where it is so simple?
i can't figure it out.
thanks

Yes and if you read about strokes and the appearance panels and experiment with adding strokes and different settings for creating dash lines you can accomplish a lot.
Look at the Stroke Panel a little more carefully and you will see the option to create dash lines.
The help probably has changed for CS5 since there is an additiona option for CS5 as to the way the dash lines are spaced
in relationship to the corners and paths the other keeps the exact measurements of the dash and gaps not considering the ends or corners

Dashed line / dotted line coupon effect? FCPX

Seeing if anyone has any tips or tricks on how to create a dashed line type of effect around an object in a video, making it look like a coupon or like it was cut out of paper?
The line doesn't necessarily progress around the object in the video -- it can be a static layer. Though, if anyone DOES have tips on animating the lines, that could be cool, too!
Thanks in advance.

Familiar with Motion?
Draw a short horizontal line. Select the Anchor point tool and drag the center to the right end of the line you drew. Replicate the line. Change the Arrangement to Outline. In the Cell Controls section, check the Align Angle option.
You will now have a dashed outline rectangle. You can publish the Size parameter and change the size of the rectangle with the Width and Height parameters from Size. You can increase the number of line segments with the Points parameter and you can animate the outline with the Offset parameter (but there's a catch.)
When animating the offset, you will have line segments extend "outside" the base rectangle shape briefly (since they are aligned to the side they are attached to, then snap to another side when the anchor point changes over from one side to the next.)
To get around that, you need to create another rectangle that is 100 by 100 and link the Scale X and Scale Y parameters (separately) to the Width and Height of the Replicator (in the Link behavior, set the Scale to 10 for both.) Drag the rectangle onto the Replicator in the Layers List and hold until you get the popup menu -- select Add Mask to Object. [PS -- you should center the Replicator AND the rectangle before adding the rectangle as a mask!] [You can create a square rectangle then select the Shape > Geometry tab and type in the exact points: (-50, 50); (50, 50); (50, -50); (-50, -50) to create the exact size you need.]
If the mask is perfectly aligned, you can now animate the dashed line and it won't look weird. You can change the width and height of the replicator and the mask will change in perfect synchronization.
You can also make the dashes longer or shorter by manipulating the Scale X parameter in the Cell Controls of the Replicator. If you made the original line white, you can colorize from the Cell Controls as well.
After that, you'll need to figure out if you want a solid color background; a drop zone or effect source/title background; what kind of text you want inside the dashed outline (or you can manually place a Basic Title in FCPX if you like); etc...
Hope this helps... If you need further help with this, let me know.

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