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thanks jconingham!

Is it somehow possible in illustrator to easily show the path dimensions as you would have in technical drawings? lets say i have a line 10 mm and i want it to be shown right above the line.

Bert, i can´t understand your latest hint. you can direct select the center area when theres a path with a fill. here according to your instructions theres no fill. besides AI csI deletes all of the path when direct selection (clicked once somewhere inside the filled path) used.

thanks guys. all of the suggested techniques work. tried them all. itchibug? proposed way is really probably the shortest in terms of time and also more effect based which makes it more universal. thanks.

theres also this tool named add anchor points. but is there maybe any shorter way to do it?

I am really confused with this probably an easy task. i need to cut a rounded rectangle into 4 equal parts. don´t really figure out the most rational way to do that. i can do this with the circle, with using the scissor tool to cut from the anchor points.help!" :)

tons of thanks Bert! take care.

I can´t figure out when to use the effect - outline stroke. As much as i have tried to use it, it just seems to not work at all. So instead always go for object/path/outline stroke. however i have learned to use other effects and they are in most cases very helpful.

:) +12 to Bert

bert! all the time i find new valuable tips from your posts.need to go through all of your posts :). cheers, Bert and thanks from me as well.

if i remember it correct it was only possible with the direct selection tool.

to ajkalos: I agree with your lattest post. I think itchybug deserves some kind of special treatment here.

sorry, i have AI 10 not CS.

i use illustrator CS, my work that is want to print ou is beyond the artboard size. i think i could resize the artboard from the file document setup and i thought the converting to pdf would know my cropped area. it seems it doesn´t

one earlier post covered this topic with itchybugs honourable advice (http://www.tek-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=1074371&page=1) but my problem is that i have assigned the crop area but saving to pdf still crops it to a artboard size.