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BetterHandles is a plugin for Adobe Illustrator that combines a tool and palette to make working with Bezier curve handles easier and more powerful:
Select multiple handles, and collectively move, extend, rotate, or retract them Extend or retract handles without changing their angles Edit points numerically: anchor, in handle, out handle Convert multiple points from corner to smooth or vice versa Automatically extend new handles on multiple points Intuitively reshape path segments, optionally constraining handle directions Use slow-drag to divide the cursor movement for extremely precise moves Equalize a point's handles See all the handles on a path while editing it Split a path at one or more points Delete one or more points and close the path around them See when the cursor is over a handle, point, or path without having to use Smart Guides. And more!
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Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS X 10.4 Intel
- Mac OS X 10.4 PPC
- Mac OS X 10.3.9
- Mac OS X 10.3
- Mac OS X 10.2
- Mac OS X 10.1
- Mac OS X 10.0
- Mac OS Classic
Additional Requirements:
- Mac OS X with Adobe Illustrator CS3
Versions are also available for Illustrator 10, CS or CS2 -- please visit our web site for all the download links.
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Will not load into Ill. CS2 - Version: 1.01, 7/18/2007 10:40AM PST
ScreenTan
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- Will not load into Ill. CS2
A stupendous plug-in 
- Version: 1.0, 12/6/2006 12:56AM PST
Nick Sloan
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 “low gear” 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.
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 “low gear” 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.
So, now what?