So I had a brain cramp in my previous post - the calligraphy tool already yields a closed polygon. So therefore the eraser slicing through such a polygon does yield two separate polygons - however they are bound together and need to be broken apart using the Break Apart command as previously suggest...

Thanks for your help. I just checked Adobe Illustrator (which is also a vector based drawing program) and it works the way I thought things should work i.e. after using the eraser tool any visually separated parts of the original shape become independent shapes, each one a separate vector object cre...

Thanks for your reply brynn. I did indeed read the (very short) documentation on the eraser tool before posting :-). I am an electronics engineer and the whiteboard scribbles I typically do contain text, block diagrams, graphs and circuit schematics. The only tool I could make work sensibly was the ...

I'm using the Calligraphy tool and a graphics tablet to emulate drawing on a white board (I'm using a projector in meetings to scribble away and then save the results afterwards). If I draw a shape (line, circle etc.) and then select the eraser tool and use it to effectively cut the shape in half th...