Path tool

hi,
i'm from germany sorry for my bad english... but i will try to explain my problem.
well, i draw a bezir line (path) in inkscape, because its more easy to use and saves a lot of time for me then the beziertool in illustrator.
than i saved it as an .svg file.
but if i open it in illustrator many functions are not availabel to me.
my idea is to let a path look like hand-drawn or painted .... and i want to edit the some path
lines later. ( i want to edit it like a path drawn in illustrator with the bezier tool.)
i attached the svg file to understand my problem.
thank you for helping me
greets Martin

ALWAYS state what version of Illustrator you are using.
Your file opens in CS3. Always look at the Appearance Palette to see what kind of object is selected. It will tell you it's a Group. All you have to do is ungroup it to work with the separate paths.
JET

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more tolerable than not being able to use the freeform path tool. (^.^)
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DUH! I've only done this task a million times before, and now I’m flummoxed. About the third weird thing in as many weeks . . .
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What happened;
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Offset Path in the effects menu acts totally different thean ofset Path in the Object menu WHY?
Because the command in the Object menu is a straightforward path-modifying command. You select something, apply the command, and the result is a new path.
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The offset path is "modifiable" in that you can change the attributes of the Effect any time you want. The offset path is also "modifiable" in that you can re-shape the path to which the effect is applied, and the offset path updates automatically. That's a good thing.
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the offset path in object menu gives me the right result, an offseth path which I can cut and modify.
Yes. But it's frankly rather lame. That is, if you now need to bend the whole road in another direction, or alter one of its curves, how are you going to do that for both sides of the road at the same time? With Offset Path applied as a live effect, you can. With Offset Path already Expanded, or applied as the older...uh...dead...command, you can't.
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JET

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subtlefly72 wrote:
Thanks kglad,
OK that is basically what I have been doing, but its been a bit hit and miss, but maybe now I see why, your last sentence
of course, all those objects have to exist at the time your code executes.
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Hi, DrStrik9.
Perhaps I didn't explain it well enough.
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I suggest you view this tutorial. It will show you the basics
of the Pen
Tool.
http://www.communitymx.com/abstract.cfm?cid=D01EF
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select two
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alex
P-C-Surgeonz wrote:
> I thought the 'Join' or 'Union' was closing the path. Is
there a different
> procedure for closing the path? I do notice that if I
zoom in to approx. 800%,
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are not exact. Is there a
> way to connect the multiple connection lines. When I
originally joined/unioned
> these multiple lines, they did become one when selected,
but maybe this still
> isn't a closed path.
>

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