Adobe Illustrator CS4 How-Tos: 100 Essential Techniques

#31 Selecting Path Segments and Paths

Illustrator paths are made up of anchors with path segments connecting them. You can select and edit an entire path when you want to copy, move, or resize the path. You can select either an anchor or a path segment to reshape an object.

You can select path segments by clicking on (or within three pixels of) the segment with the Direct Selection tool.

You Can Copy and Paste into Flash CS4

You can copy Illustrator objects directly into Flash CS4. This is new to CS4 and makes it easy to design animation in Illustrator and move images to Flash for programming and animation.

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You can change the 3 pixel Tolerance setting by choosing Illustrator (Mac) or Edit (Windows) > Preferences > Selection ...