Drawing lines

[dchawkins]

I know this is a very basic question, but how do I draw a line from, say, 5,10 to 25,65?

[zaphodeist]

Look at bottom right of screen and watch the mouse position

[dchawkins]

Look at bottom right of screen and watch the mouse position

Very difficult to do this with any accuracy. Surely you should be able to enter co-ordinates?

[zaphodeist]

You can click on the node at the end of the line and use the positioning on the info bar at the top

[angelize]

Hello dchawkins,

There is no feature that will allow you directly enter co-ordinates for a line. The little position box that Zaphodiest refered to actually tracks your mouse cursor not the line or any other item you may have selected.

There is however a workaround

1. Make sure you have a guidelines layer activated. You can do this by either dragging a guideline from a ruler and then drag it back again to remove it or right click a layer in the page and layer gallery and from the menu that appears select create guide layer.

2.Once the guides layer has been created select it in the page and layer gallery and click the properties button at the top of the galley and the layer properties panel will appear, click the guides tab and select either vertical or horizontal and click add new now a new box shows up which will allow you to input a location. This location will AFAIK, be based on the units you have set for the document. You can set as many guides this way as you need.

3. Once you have your guides set up make sure snap to guides is enabled in the windows menu, and you can snap your lines to your guides.

[zaphodeist]

The little position box that Zaphodiest refered to actually tracks your mouse cursor not the line or any other item you may have selected.

True, but if you select the line and drag the end point then the cursor position is the end of line position Or rectangle, star, or any other selected item

[Acorn]

I always seem to come in from left field.

In the Page options, set Units to Pixels, set Grid and Ruler spacing to 10px Major and 10 subdivisions.
Use Window > Show Grid and Window > Snap to > Snap to Grid.
Then use the Mouse Position indicator to locate and place your marks.
You will have to Scale your view to around 1600% for fine positioning.

Acorn

[steve.ledger]

Hello dchawkins,

There is no feature that will allow you directly enter co-ordinates for a line.

Could mark each co-ordinate with a dot then make a line between them?

[MarcT]

You can click on the node at the end of the line and use the positioning on the info bar at the top

↑ This is the way ↑

There's a node on endpoint of line, you can cycle selected with tab key.
Use the shape tool to select nodes.

[Acorn]

↑ This is the way ↑ There's a node on endpoint of line, you can cycle selected with tab key.
Use the shape tool to select nodes.

MarT, this gets my vote. Thanks.

Acorn