I want to have arrowhead caps on the end of a stroke in illustrator (so similar to the rounded caps, but with an arrowhead that fits perfectly to the edge of the stroke)  I can sort of achieve this using actual an arrowhead, but it doesn't look perfect. Here's what I've got so far:    EDIT:  I've also tried messing with the stroke's Variable Width Profile - there appears to be a profile that is exactly what I'm after, however, the "caps" scale depending on the width of the stroke. I need the arrowheads of the stroke to be exactly at a 45° angle.
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First post here!  What I'm trying to accomplish looks fairly simple but so far I've had no luck in finding a way to accomplish it. Essentially I want to create custom stroke caps (or strke profiles if necessary) that will allow me to create strokes with a shallow rounded end or an angled end as shown below    Is this even possible? If so, how would I go about making this happen? I am working on a typeface where these two shapes will be common, and I prefer to work with pure strokes first, so if I can accomplish this it would be great. Thanks in advance for any tips!
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I have just made this in illustrator. I made a path and used gradient across the stroke, but this highlighted area appeared. So, how can I fix it using photoshop or illustrator ?
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I am looking for an easy way to create in Illustrator vintage style corners like on the picture provided.  I have some technical ideas, but they are time consuming, there should be an easier way I believe.
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I want to create with TikZ a yellow arrow with black margin (border, edge). I thought I could do this by using two arrows which lie on the top of each other, e.g. with:  \documentclass[12pt,twoside, a4paper]{report} \usepackage{tikz}  \begin{document} \begin{tikzpicture}[yscale=0.25]% \draw[-&gt;,black,very thick](-1974*0.107pt,119*0.107pt) -- (-2258*0.107pt,820*0.107pt);%first layer, black arrow \draw[-&gt;,yellow,thick](-1974*0.107pt,119*0.107pt) -- (-2258*0.107pt,820*0.107pt);%second layer, yellow arrow \end{tikzpicture}% \end{document}     But I am not so satisfied with the result because the black arrow should be a bit longer.  I know I could play with the end point coordinates of the black arrow so that it fits well. But if I want to change the coordinates of my black-yellow arrow, this means I have to play again with the coordinates of the black arrow, which would cost a while.  Does anyone have a better solution? I would be glad to hear any hint.:-) Thanks in advance!
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I would like to draw an arrow like this using TikZ:    This is taken from . I didn't succeed in reproducing the arrow; is somewhat beyond my (extremely limited) TikZ abilities. I don't need all the workflow stuff. I simply want to draw such an arrow at a certain place in my text, e.g. -->  \documentclass{article} \usepackage{&lt;???&gt;} \usepackage{tikz} \usetikzlibrary{&lt;???&gt;} \begin{document} Donec vehicula augue eu neque. Pellentesque habitant morbi \tikz &lt;???code for the arrow???&gt; ; tristique senectus et netus \end{document}   PS: Some explanations in your solution would be much appreciated, otherwise it will be difficult to customize it.
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After creating a path with rounded corners in Illustrator, I added a dashed stroke and aligned it inside the path (but the problem is the same when aligning outside). Strangely I ended up with a lot of strange 'glitches' (?) along the path:    When aligned centered, the stroke looks neat and sharp:    I've tried changing stroke properties but nothing really helps. Has anyone ever experienced similar behaviour? How can I get those sharp strokes back?  To create this symmetrical shape I first created the left half, copied it, reflected the copy and united the both parts with Pathfinder.  Here's the actual document in case someone is interested:
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I want to create some parts that I can reuse for models. I was trying to make a steam punkish exhaust pipe. I want to be able to make the pipe of any length, and as curvy as I like but I want to keep the end cap always undeformed. I approximated my results by hand placing the "crown" at the end of this bezier curve.  I tried to make an array modifier that included the crown as the end cap, but that results in the end cap deforming.
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I am working on the latest version of Adobe Illustrator CC with all the latest updates installed.  I have the following:    I would like the dome shape in front to act as a mask for the complex shapes behind. How can I do this? The shapes behind are 100s of small shapes and even though I grouped them all as one, I still can't get it to mask when I try various things in the Pathfinder panel.  Any help would be appreciated.
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I'm really new to Blender and for my next project I need to create a cone with curved edges. I've searched online and messed around with Blender but I can't find a way. What could I try?  EDIT  Sorry I wasn't clear, what I mean is something like this :
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In the logo I'm making, there is a circle which has text wrapped around it on the upper half. I used the warp tool but it distorts the text and doesn't give the desired effect.  I can't use the type on path tool because that is not the effect I want.   I want the individual letters to be straight and the only way I can think of doing that is to mannually edit each letter to sit around the circle. I was wondering if there was another, more efficient way to fo that.
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Is there any way to set the style for the lineends for the TCanvas.LineTo method? It seems to default to rounded ends, which looks very bad for several lines in a row of different colours when Pen.Width is set to a large value (e.g. 9).  It looks like this (rounded ends):   ********........****** **********........****** **********........******  ********........******   (where * is e.g. blue and . is yellow)  It is even worse if the two outer lines are drawn after the middle line:   ********........****** **********......******** **********......********  ********........******   I'd like it to look like this (streight ends):   ********........******  ********........******  ********........******  ********........******   Pen does not seem to offer any setting for this and neither does the LineTo method. Is there maybe a windows API function I could call?
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Drawing a semi-transparent arrow should be easy enough, right?  \documentclass{article}  \usepackage{tikz} %\usetikzlibrary{arrows} % this doesn't change the result  \pagenumbering{gobble}  \begin{document}  \begin{tikzpicture}   \draw[-stealth,line width=12pt,opacity=0.5] (0, 0) -- (0, 2); \end{tikzpicture}  \end{document}   However, this produces the following result:    Note that the arrow is darker than it should be where the rectangle and arrowhead overlap.  How can I get an arrow of this shape and size without this artifact? (Clean solutions preferred.)
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Why the arc does not fit over the circle if we use -latex arrow tip? Maybe some bug or some bad math computations?    MWE  \documentclass[11pt,margin=2pt]{standalone} \usepackage{tikz} \usetikzlibrary{arrows.meta}  \begin{document} \begin{tikzpicture} \draw         (0:1cm) arc (0: 180:1cm) arc (180:0:1cm and 2cm); \draw         (0:1cm) arc (0:-180:1cm); \draw[-&gt;]     (0:1cm) arc (0:  80:1cm); \draw[-latex] (0:1cm) arc (0:- 80:1cm); \end{tikzpicture} \end{document}
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Can some one tell me how to use Brushes in Illustrator so that when I draw complete paths such as Rectangles and Circles the stroke doesn't taper off like it does here:
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After reading Gonzalo's answer to , I thought  I would be able to modify it so that I could have the corresponding coefficients circled and an arrow going from one circle to the next. For example, I would like the coefficient of x^2 on the left, a, circled and the coefficient of x^2 on the right, 5 circled, then a curved arrow drawn between the two circles. How might I achieve this? Also, how would I add some text along the path of the arrow? I reproduce his code here.  \documentclass{article} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{tikz} \usetikzlibrary{calc}  \newcommand{\tikzmark}[1]{\tikz[overlay,remember picture] \node (#1) {};}  \begin{document}  \begin{equation}   a\tikzmark{a}x^2 + bx + c = 5\tikzmark{b}x^2 + bx + c.   \begin{tikzpicture}[overlay,remember picture,out=315,in=225,distance=0.4cm]     \draw[-&gt;,red,shorten &gt;=3pt,shorten &lt;=3pt] (a.center) to (b.center);   \end{tikzpicture} \end{equation}  \end{document}
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Here is my MS Paint job on a real bad attempt at what I'm trying to achieve:    I have access to Photoshop and Illustrator CS6, and I want to be able to draw a thick line (that is not straight) and have a pattern within the line show arrowheads within the line to indicate the direction of the line.
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In Illustrator, how do you align text in the exact center of a shape for example without creating outlines. If I go to center text using the align palette, Illustrator aligns the text to it's bounding box.  I know you can create outlines, but I want the text to remain editable in case I need to make changes later.  Any thoughts?