NEED HELP! Illustrator CS3 Will Not Combine Paths - Adobe illustrator

Tom is like JET without the brains...




And the magnificent wine cellar.

some days you got the wine cellar, some days you gotta whine...

Well, since you've degraded this post to childish name calling Bert - Go %@ck yourself.

Tom,

>>scroll up a few posts and read Bert's....and you'll probably agree
with my assessment.<<

And what do I find? You posting in a topic not to give assistance to the
person requesting help, but to complain about Illustrator by comparing
it to Corel.

Your posts do not belong in this topic or even this forum. They should
have been posted in the Features Request forum. I think you've got away
quite lightly with your less-than-perfect 'Netiquette'...

Bert Bully and Steve Stalker. I like that. Would be a good name for a country band.

B-)

Len - and this type of post -

Tom is like JET without the brains...




from someone who has added nothing helpful to add to the topic except to bully and badger with his arrogance is acceptable to you? And do you consider this proper netiquette?

Len:

I agree. On the other hand- Bully Bert and the Stalkers. Stalker Steve and the Bullies. I like it! Hey Bert, I can play the comb.

Just a little humor (I hope). steve

Why else would you put one endpoint on top of another if you didn't want
to join them?!




Because they have different stroke weights--very very common in technical illustrations, for just one thing.

To join 2 endpoints you have to first position one endpoint exactly atop
another




No you don't. DirectSelect endpoints and invoke Join. A new segment will be added to join them. But I very much agree that having to select endpoints to Join paths is tedious and cumbersome. It is also hideously limited because you can only join two paths at a time.

I would compare this to FreeHand, not Draw. In FreeHand, invoking the Join command joins any number of paths at nearest endpoints by default.

With the Pen Tool (nothing needs to be selected) click the end anchor
of one path, and then the end anchor of the other path...




Which is another of my pet peeves about Illustrator. The Pen tool has no business modifying UNSELECTED paths by default. Same principle as mentioned above: I very often need to have endpoints of separate paths coincident. The Pen is not a selection tool. It should not act like one by default.

JET

Hey Steve, you've seen my hair, you can have my comb...