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Before I update to MacOS Monterey, pretty much every time I drew a line, it was straight. Now, it seems to me like the precision is increased and now I have to select the straight line option after the Sketch lightly smoothes my free hand drawn lines.

While I know about infamous 'underline' this isn't what I'm looking for. In particular, 'underline' fails with non-perfect PDFs and scans.

Is there a setting to restore how things used to work in the sketch plugin in the preview app on macOS?

See an example below in the image:

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This picture is an example of a hand-made line with shift key down while dragging, that snaps to straight when I let up the mouse. See my comment to the OP (couldn't post an image in a comment.)enter image description here

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Over here, macOS 26.1, Preview 11.0, if I hold down the shift key when dragging the free form draw tool in a fairly straight line, the line jumps to straight when I let up the mouse. This even seems to work "at an angle", e.g., not horizontal or vertical.

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  • 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 Commented Nov 19 at 11:53
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    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. Commented Nov 21 at 21:54
  • 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 :) Commented Nov 22 at 15:20
  • 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. Commented Nov 23 at 0:38
  • 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 Commented Nov 23 at 12:03

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