BetterHandles for Mac

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• A stupendous plug-in

  Nick SloanDecember 5, 2006

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  This review was originally posted on VersionTracker.com.<br />Illustrator is used in many different ways. Some people may use it for years without editing a bézier curve, but at the opposite extreme are those who spend their working lives making fine adjustments to points and control handles. This group has been ill-served by the primitive nature of the built-in tools for adjusting handles, but BetterHandles changes all that. Anyone who has tried SnapMeasure from the same stable will know that Nineblock produce very well thought-out and solid software. With BetterHandles, adjusting length and angle of handles (independently or together) can be done intuitively, and with a degree of control not available before, either by dragging (using modifiers for various constraints, including a unique â??low gearâ?? drag) or numerically. There is a slew of additional functions for controlling pretty much any property of a point. Numerical adjustment was previously available with the excellent Point Tweaker, and some of the other functions of BH are available in Xtream Path (at a price), but BH rolls so much into one simple tool and a palette that it is without doubt the one plug-in I could not now part with.

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