

If you need further explanation just ask. I am having trouble currently with my mobileme account, otherwise I would put up screenshots or a movie describing this in greater detail. This blue point, then becomes a merged point if you will, and you can select the contour editor tool and hold down the option/alt key and pull out bezier handles to reshape it. Then you can select and delete the points dangling off of the blue point. Select both shapes and run the optimize command.

When you do this a blue point occurs at the intersection. What I do is take one of the shapes and make sure that the line intersects with the line of the other shape. If you zoom in real close you see that you still have two distinct shapes and the points are not merged. You can take the polyline tool and make a second shape, say a straight line and attempt to close your first shape.

Say you take the polyline tool and make a shape and you leave it open, meaning that you don’t click on the first point you created to close the shape. I have experimented in closing shapes and it can be done but it is kinda of tedious.
