Creating lines with round corners and ends

Is it possible to create lines with round corners and ends in Keynote for Mac? This image from Les Vogt1 sums it up nicely.

This question has been asked before, but let’s see if someone has come up with a workable solution in the meantime… Creating lines from shapes is not a viable solution; it’s cumbersome and doesn’t allow for creating an animation since it’s not a line drawing. (That suggestion was done in this thread: Connect lines and make round corners and … - Apple Community)

EDIT: silly thing is, when drawing with an Apple pencil in Keynote for iPad, all this works like a charm.

Thanks for your answer.

Of course, they could. This sounds like basic functionality to me; implementing it wouldn’t be considered ’cloning‘. Apple just chooses to keep their products more limited than necessary…

It’s even stranger: when you’re working on an iPad, you can easily draw the required lines with the Apple Pencil. It just doesn’t work on the Mac version.

PNG artwork won’t help, as it doesn’t allow for creating (line drawing) animations since it’s not a (vector) line drawing.

I’ve imported vector (SVG) artwork from Illustrator. When you break it apart to use in Keynote, the rounded line caps disappear.

Thanks. Interesting workaround.