Shearing with the Transform palette


    The Transform palette lets you shear an object by entering a negative or positive shear angle. Objects shear along the horizontal axis and relative to the object's center point, or you can change the reference point to any handle on the object's bounding box. You can also control whether strokes, effects, or patterns shear.

To shear an object with the Transform palette:

  1. Select an object.
  2. If the object uses a pattern fill, choose any of the following options from the Transform palette menu:
    • Transform Object Only to shear the object and not the pattern.
    • Transform Pattern Only to shear the pattern and not the object.
    • Transform Both to shear both the object and its pattern fill.
  3. To change the reference point to which the object shears, click a square on the reference point locator Reference point locator in the palette.
  4. To specify the shear angle, enter a value in the shear text box.
  5. (For more information, see Using the Transform palette.)