When using direct select tool to adjust anchor points and handles, keep all anchor points and handles visible
When using direct select tool to adjust anchor points and handles, please keep ALL anchor points and handles visible, as opposed to everything disappearing but the point/handle you are working with. It is impossible and frustrating to try to join/snap to anchor points, or adjust points or handles relative to other points or handles when you can’t see them!. Thank you!
Jill Wirsing
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Jill Wirsing
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Hello Egor,
I checked out what you meant about the dedicated button in the control panel for ‘show handles for multiple selected anchor points’. But… I mean for Ai to display all handles and anchors for an object (or objects) that I select (V tool), and then I need them to all stay displayed for the selected objects when I go to edit one of the anchors or handles (direct select tool A). Sometimes I want to adjust a handle to match another anchors handle. Sometimes I want to move an anchor point to match another anchor point, or join one anchor on top of the other. But this can not be done if everything disappears but the one anchor or handle you select with the direction tool. This is how Affinity Designer works, and it so helpful that I really wish it could be done in Illustrator. Thank you!
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Jill, do you mean that Ai should display all handles for all the anchors even when they are NOT selected?
Or do you want to see handles for anchors that ARE selected?If the latter, there is a dedicated button in the Control panel (not Properties) that does exactly this — 'Show handles for multiple selected anchor points'.
Does it work for you?
