This is for a packaging project I’m working on. One of the vendors involved sent a template in vector art. Part of the outline was in a bunch of paths rather than one path. Think of a circle that is made up of four arc-shaped paths rather than one round path. I need the shape to be all one path so that I can offset the path. It’s a very irregular shape, and I’d prefer not to redraw it.
What I have done is select the overlapping anchor points and used Object > Path > Join to join them. That has worked fine up until the end. At this point, the path is mostly closed except for one segment.
I should be able to use the pen tool, click on one anchor point, and click on the other anchor point to complete this. If I click on the lower anchor point with the pen tool, it behaves exactly as you’d expect. When I click on the upper anchor point to close the path, the pen tool turns into the delete anchor point pen tool and deletes the anchor point. If I have the pen tool and go to click on the upper anchor point, the pen tool, again, turns into the delete anchor point pen tool. I tried drawing a line that has an anchor point overlapping that upper anchor point on the path and using the Join option. This gives me the pop up box saying they can’t be joined.
I’ve tried searching the web. Adobe’s forums show some similar issues and possible fixes, but nothing has worked for me. I’ve been using AI a long time and have never seen this before. Any help is appreciated.
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