Adobe Illustrator CC Classroom in a Book (2019 Release), First Edition

You will now continue the path as a straight line by removing the leading direction handle.

4. 
   

   Move the pointer over the last point created (point 2). When the convert-point icon appears (
   ), click. This deletes the leading direction handle from the anchor point (not the trailing
   direction handle), as shown in the second part of the following figure.

   
   


5. 
   

   Press the Shift key, and click and release the mouse and then key on point 3 in the template
   path to the right to set the next point, creating a straight segment.

   
   


6. 
   

   For the next arc, move the pointer over the last point created. When the convert-point icon