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Re: Make a double path one path
by John Mensinger on Oct 21, 2009 at 12:42:32 pm

Using the Live Trace preset, "Hand Drawn Sketch" will get you the "centerline," (an old Adobe Streamline term), trace style you need, however you'll still get multiple paths to clean up. After tracing, use the Expand button, then with all selected, Object > Ungroup. You'll see now that any "fat" portion of the wave is simply an extra little path segment you can delete, and the main wave form will remain, though it too will be in segments you'll have to connect up using the Join command.

It's far from a one-click solution to your problem, but it gets you closer to the desired result than you were. Perhaps someone with more Live Trace experience will chime in. If I have any breakthroughs, I'll post 'em.

John M:
All of the vim with none of that annoying vigor.

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Make a double path one path by Harry Hoag on Oct 21, 2009 at 10:59:22 am
- Re: Make a double path one path by Vincent Rosati on Oct 21, 2009 at 12:19:02 pm
  - Re: Make a double path one path by Harry Hoag on Oct 21, 2009 at 12:38:55 pm
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