User Guide

Chapter 2: Documents and Setup
Disperse to place one graphic on each frame in an Animation document. You can spread objects over
existing pages or Canvas will create pages for the objects. Dispersed objects are placed on a new
layer on each page.
To disperse objects:
1. Select the objects to disperse. The objects should be on the same layer and should not be
grouped.
2. Choose Object | Arrange | Disperse.
3. In the Disperse dialog box, select one of the following:
Dynamically allocated partitions: Canvas will create pages to hold the selected
objects.
Select partitions: Click Select to display a list of pages. Shift-click pages to select them,
and then click Select.
4. In the Objects per partition text box, enter the number of objects to place on each page
(Canvas divides the number of objects evenly if you select pages; remaining objects go on
the last selected page).
5. Click OK to disperse the selected objects.
Using guide and grid layers
In addition to general purpose layers, you can use special layers containing drawing aids called
guides and grids. Like other layers, guide layers and grid layers appear in the Document Layout
palette. You can arrange these layers by dragging them in the list to place them in front of or behind
other layers.
Guide layers
When the command Layout | Snap To | Guides is selected, objects that you draw and move will snap
to guides on the guide layer. Guides that you drag from the rulers, and text sections you draw with
the Section tool will appear on the current page’s guide layer. You can also draw on a guide layer to
create “magnetic” guide objects. You can move or copy a guide layer to another place within the
present page or to another page altogether.
By default, objects on guide layers are light blue. By changing the guide layer override color, you can
make the objects any color.
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