Quote Originally Posted by handrawn View Post
could not agree more - and it would do what shipen wants very quickly and easily keeping the sides of the lines parallel, but xara does not have one

but you have remined me of the xara tool shipen could use:

select the vector line go to shape painter tool [previously called shape builder] and from the info bar drop down on the right choose warp

that will enable you to warp the line by dragging over, keeping the sides equidistant ['parallel']

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Well the Shape Painter is certainly an interesting approach. And it does more or less do the job!

However my slight problems are:
1. I only want to create a very subtle tweaks (that look "hand drawn" [!]) and quite lot of amount of skill and/or time is required to make it look hand drawn.
2. I want to do multiple lines at once and make them wobble randomly rather than systematically
3. Fwiw, I can't work out what effect if any "Smoothing" has.
4. Also is there any way to straighten the line (slightly afterwards) rather than trying to sort of brush them back into shape?

J