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click and hold on the rectangle tool...some other tools will "flyout"...select the ellipse tool...to make a perfect circle, hold down the shift key while drawing
Or, if you want a specific size in mm/points/pixels or whatever, and/or placed on a specific spot, just draw an ellipse or circle and fill in the relevant X, Y, W, H in Transform.
Or with the ellipse tool selected, click on the artboard and enter the desired size for the width and height dimension. (or, after entering the width dimension, click on the "height" description and it will enter the width's dimension in the height)
I mean this in the most nice and polite possible way. Read the manual.
Or with the spiral tool, set the segments to 4 and the decay to 100.
Well, there is actually one more way - using the Polygon tool click on the artboard & set the number of sides to 1000.
Never say only one more way.
Create a 2" square and apply filter>stylize>round corners with 1" corner radius. (or effects>stylize>round corners)
There is never only one more way in Illustrator.:)
(I know, you meant another way.B-))
If a polygon with 1000 sides counts there is yet another way, with the pen tool (everything in pixels, and press Shift when dragging):
Position the pen tip at the first anchor point (0,-100), and drag to extend the direction line 55 to the right; place the second anchor point at (100,0) and drag 55 upwards; place the third anchor point at (0,100) and drag 55 to the left; place the fourth anchor point at (-100,0) and drag 55 downwards; finally close the curve at (0,-100), once more dragging 55 to the right.
Is there a sillier way to do it?
Is there a sillier way to do it? Yes. You can buy the artwork from me.
I will sell you a circle in vector format for $500.
Sorry, no refunds for reading the manual.
Is there a discount on small circles?
And, now that I think of it, there is another way with the pen tool, a little easier:
Position the pen tip at the centre you want, or adjust with Transform; place another anchor point to make a straight line; set the stroke weight to the desired diameter; choose Object>Path>Outline stroke; go back to Transform to readjust the centre X, Y and set W and H to 0; set fill to None and stroke to the colour you wish (or reverse if you want a filled circle).
Or type the letter "o", convert to outlines, release compund paths, and with all of that selected, add to path.
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type the period symbol and convert to outlines.
All the while choosing a font with perfect curves for your "o"s and periods...
Very nice Bert! Can I have a hit?
Now if only making crop circles was so easy....
Crop circles? I just saw a candid camera episode where they were trying to fool folk in Kansas with Department of Unexplained Happenings (DUH) personnel showing aerial photos of the irrigation wheel pattern circles and claiming that they were crop circles...
Yes Bert, great circles.
Rob
It is TOBACCO, allright! TO-BAC-CO. From the South Farthing.
Back on Topic, please, Guys
What is tobacco? Oh, you mean pipe-weed, leaf. Do you use Longbottom Leaf? Or is it Old Toby, or maybe Southern Star? And why is everyone talking about circles? One should be enough. And, if you read the topic closely, even an oval. So there is no need to be too choosy about the font, an oval o will do, as will a 0. And you can print D twice, make them into outlines, reflect one and put them together, merge and remove the inside curves. That was sillier than the first pen tool solution, perhaps even siller than buying. Sorry, Len, I sent the above before I saw you called us to order.
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