Making a regular triangle with Star tool duplicates the path
Scissor tool cuts lines and duplicates them (completely broken)
Make a triangle by selecting the star and changing it to 3 lines (triangle), now cut one of the lines with the scissor. It duplicates the shape! This bug is seen across multiple shapes and lines. The scissor tool is broken along with selecting individual points often creates duplicate lines.
The quality of adobe products has just gone downhill in the last 5 years.
Chris Mayernik
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It’s even more interesting than it seems!
The current official reference (https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/tool-techniques/star-tool.html) provides very little on the Star tool, a pathetically small amount. Does not mention modifiers at all.
So I just googled 'Illustrator Star tool Alt' — and found this page — https://krankykids.com/cheatsheets/illustrator_cs6/shape_tool_star.html.
It explains some modifiers, but does not mention the way to create an 'interwoven star' at all.
This small video by Monika Gause explains this 'special kind of star': http://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447/suggestions/48207539So we can’t learn about it officially, and can rely only on chance and word-of-mouth.
Thinking about this more, I realized that the behavior is not exactly a bug... at least not as it seems. It’s that Illustrator toggles the 'interwoven mode' on its own when the star created 'crosses' a threshold — being regular and three-spoked — even though Cmd/Ctrl is not held...
I spent some time experimenting with this more.
I discovered that one can exit the interwoven mode while still creating a star by pressing Cmd/Ctrl + Opt/Alt once, for any number of spokes — except for 3 and 4.Pressing Opt/Alt will regularize a star, interwoven or not, for all spokes again — this times except for 4 (while three works 'OK' — resulting the exact same self-doubled triangle).
You won’t be able to if the 'triangle' is secretly interwoven, unless you hold Cmd/Ctrl — which will pin the outer radius points.
Rediscovering all of this feels like being a baboon in an alien ship :)
This is fascinating. Monika Gause commented on the three-pointed stars: 'You do not use the star tool to make a polygon', but not because this won’t create one, but because it creates something else — take a look at the GIF attached.I still have no idea why I can’t disable the interwoven mode (with Cmd/Ctrl + Opt/Alt) or regularize a 4-spoked star (with Opt/Alt)... but that’s another problem.
And speaking about this case — well, today we learnt that the Star tool creates interwoven stars and not triangles, and the interwoven mode is automatically toggled when a three-spoked regular star happens.
We were just using it wrong, and Ai never told us about it.
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It turns out this bug isn't new and isn't caused by the recent introduction of the Live Star... it's rather old and was there long before 5 last years. It doesn't make it any less broken, but at least it's not a recent incident.
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Wow. Good catch! Indeed, a regular triangle made from 3-sided star, build with the Star tool (with Opt/Alt held), becomes a doubled triangle, a continuous path folded on itself. You don’t have to cut it with Scissors, it’s enough to just drag one point away.
Happens only for triangle, and only for a regular one.
So — let’s be fair — it’s not 'completely broken' :)
I do agree the overall quality is not at all Ai deserves it, but the Star is one of more polished late releases... Hope this gets fixed shortly.Checked it — does not happen if Polygon tool used instead.
Meanwhile, to workaround this one can click Add button once in the Pathfinder panel. This will make it into just path instead of live shape, but it’s easy to revert with Object > Shape > Convert to Shape.
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