change line to bezier

fontomaker · Post by **fontomaker** » Sun Nov 28, 2004 12:32 am

i started drawing a glyph in FCP4.5 all with straight lines. now i selected some points to change them from line to bezier but i can not find any option to do it. right mouse button on a selected point(s) does not give me any options "set selected point(s) to bezier-type / set selected point(s) to line-type"

when you develope a font from scratch you might want to change some details on the glyph you work on, and tweak points here and there.

Bhikkhu Pesala · Post by **Bhikkhu Pesala** » Sun Nov 28, 2004 7:55 am

Just select the point, add a point (A), and make it off-curve (F), then you can move the off-curve point to curve the line.

vanisaac · Post by **vanisaac** » Sun Nov 28, 2004 5:30 pm

Your Bezier point is called an "off curve" point in FCP. So now that you know what to look for, I'll tell you all the ways to effect this transformation. First, when you right click a point, the fourth option is "off curve". The transform toolbar under "position" has a check box labeled "On curve" that you can uncheck to make a Bezier curve. The keyboard shortcuts "N" and "F" make selected points on and off curve, respectively. When you draw a contour, you can right click instead of left clicking to draw an off curve point. Lastly, under edit->curve there are options "On" and "Off". So there are five ways of making quadratic Bezier splines in FCP.