: Pathfinder not accomplishing my task in Illustrator I am trying to make a speech bubble. My attempt consists of a rectangle and then using the pen tool to establish three points. They are not

@Nickens508

The pathfinder will happily remove that line, but the anchors have to be lined up perfectly. I suspect your anchors may be off by a minor fraction of a point. Perhaps imperceptible at low zoom levels, but enough to tell Illustrator that they are not part of the same line.

The easy option is to make sure the objects overlap instead of trying to line the edges up. (I see Lollero's answer just popped up with this solution.)

Another option is to draw the rectangle, add 3 anchors to the bottom of it, then drag the center anchor lower.



Note that you are using a rounded stroke on your rectangle object but the stroke of the dangling portion is sharp. If you combine rely on the stroke to round your corners, they will be consistently round on the whole object. You are better off drawing a rounded-rectangle as Lollero demonstrated.

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@Jamie315

1. First make the rectangle.

Then make the triangle. Make sure the triangle goes past the rectangles side.



2. Select both objects with Selection tool and then from the Path finder window click the first icon.







Also, you could just as well make the Rectangle and then with pentool click 3 points side by side into the desired side of the rectangle, and move the middle point down with direct selection tool.

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