You can also end a series of line segments by closing the path.Select another tool, or Command-click (Mac) or Ctrl-click (Windows) anywhereon your drawing.Here are two ways to end a line segment path: If the path isn’t closed, you canadd points anywhere in your drawing simply by clicking.
As you generate anchors, the Pen toolremains active until you close the path. To generate a straight line with the Pen tool, click once where you want theline to begin, and then click at the point where you want the line to end.Additional clicks add more line segments. Resist the intuitive impulse to click and drag! In other words, to create a line, you first define twoanchor points. Notethat terminology: You generate line segments (paths)-youdon’t draw them. The best way to start using the Pen tool is to generate line segments. Figure 2 The Pen tooland the Pen tool flyout in Illustrator CS3.
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