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72 Lines, Curves, and Shapes
Converting a shape to editable curves
The conversion of QuickShapes to curves provides you with a starting point for
your own shapes, whereas converting text to curves is one way of incorporating
editable letter-based shapes into designs.
To convert an object into curves:
1. Select your QuickShape or text object.
2. Click
Convert to Curves on the Arrange tab.
3. Edit the curve outline using the Node Tool.
However they were created, all converted objects behave in a similar manner.
For example, you can create some text with the Artistic Text Tool, convert it to
curves, then use the Node Tool to edit the curves that make up the letters, just as
if you had drawn the letter shapes by hand using the line tools.
The conversion process loses all of the special properties inherent in
QuickShapes and text.
Check Clean Curves in Tools>Options>General to automatically reduce the
number of nodes during convert to curve operations—this makes editing a little
easier!