CreativePro Tip of the Week: Making Dotted Lines in Illustrator
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Need to make a dotted line in Illustrator? It’s not obvious how to do it. One way is to turn on the Dashed Line option in the the Stroke panel.

Then set the Cap to rounded, the Dash value to zero, and the gap to double the stroke width.

This article was last modified on December 7, 2017
This article was first published on December 7, 2017
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