Allow for negative value input and Option click with Line Segment Tool
The original idea by Johan Perjus, from https://medium.com/design-bootcamp/things-i-wish-adobe-would-address-with-adobe-illustrator-4796a89e1bae
As you may know, holding down the Option key and clicking on your artboard with any of the shape tools (Rectangle, Ellipse, Polygon, Star) creates the shape centered on where you clicked, as opposed to the right and down from where you clicked. Please also apply this function to the Line Segment Tool as well as allow for negative value input in order to create the line in the opposite direction of the current angle value, just as you can enter a negative value to move an object in the opposite direction of the set angle with the Selection Tool. This would be a lot faster than first typing the value and then changing the angle value from for example 0° to 180° when you want to draw a line going right to left instead of the default left to right.
AdminEgor Chistyakov
(Admin, Adobe Illustrator)
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It works in Move dialog, when we can set a negative distance just fine.
Can’t see why this can’t apply here. Plus, it’d help to alter the starting point of it, and it can be useful as well.