Timeline for Is it possible to force the Sketch function in Preview.app to draw straight lines (instead of smoothed freehand) by default?
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| Nov 23 at 12:03 | comment | added | Salihcyilmaz | First one is what you see, i.e. free form drawing. Second one straightens my drawing, resulting in straight line. Notably, I have to choose this manually, hence the question. Third one often results in circle, square, ellipsis which depends on what you draw closer to. Many times I choose either first or second one. Probably this is the third most probable identification coming from ML/AI model at the backend | |
| Nov 23 at 0:38 | comment | added | Bruce Van Allen | What happens if you click the lowest item in that gray thing with the circled X? In my setup, that's the straight version, and it looks straight in your image. | |
| Nov 22 at 15:20 | comment | added | Salihcyilmaz | That's cool :). I have added an image to describe what I'm talking about. This should be straight, jesus, but no I have to select manually. I think this is about versions and shift trick seems to not work on Monterey but MacOS26. I am accepting your answer anyways, thanks :) | |
| Nov 21 at 21:54 | comment | added | Bruce Van Allen | I uploaded a screenshot of a PDF in which I used shift to straighten a hand-made line. Interestingly, I just noticed that when you do that (again macOS 26.1, Preview 11.0) a little toggle appears that allows you to switch back and forth between your original line and the straightened one. That goes away if you click almost anything else, but I used it to made a line, copied it, then toggled back to straight, pasted the un-straightened copy next to its straightened version. I couldn't post an image in this comment so I posted a new answer with a screenshot of the PDF I made; check it out. | |
| Nov 19 at 11:53 | comment | added | Salihcyilmaz | Thanks :). I'm on the Monterey (thanks to legacy patcher) and this is MPB2013. Unfortunately I can't update to MacOS26. I tried "shift" trick, but no success :(. Maybe your hand is not shaky like mine and you're able to secure a straight line. Can you confirm whether shift trick still works when you introduce a bit shakiness in a straight-line? Up anyways. Best-Can | |
| Nov 17 at 21:38 | history | answered | Bruce Van Allen | CC BY-SA 4.0 |