Adobe Illustrator scripts are a real time saver
In the need to round just some of a shape’s corners in Illustrator, I googled for some native way to do that. At least in CS2, as far as I can tell, that’s not an available feature.
The good thing is I discovered this nifty set of scripts which greatly streamline the burden of creating some specific, mostly mathematical operations of shapes—such as rounding only the selected anchors in a shape.
Ironically, Round Any Corner, the one script I needed, doesn’t work 100% percent of the time (sometimes it misses on or two anchors, and you have to reapply it to only those anchors). But Metaball works like a charm, and Reverse is a native feature to CorelDRAW (long abandoned) which I’ve always missed in Illustrator.
Installation is a breeze and there’s no mystery in using the scripts: throw them in the /Presets/Scripts folder in the Illustrator install path, open the software, select the paths or individual anchors and use them. Well worth the download.
The author is some generous Japanese person who I couldn’t identify, because the rest of the site is in Japanese.
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