User Guide

Canvas 12 User Guide
Copy & Paste Smart Copy: With this option on, if you copy and paste text that begins
a paragraph, Canvas pastes the text as a new paragraph using the
original paragraph settings. With this option off, Canvas pastes text into
the current paragraph using the existing paragraph settings.
Replace Selection: Activating this function allows you to automatically
replace selected text when you paste into a Canvas document. If this
option is not activated, text will be pasted into the center of your
document.
Pasted Text Box Size: Enter the point size that you would like your
text box to be when you paste text into your document. The setting that
you choose will become the default size for all text boxes that will be
created when you paste text into your document.
Font History Activate font history: Select this option to list the most recently used
fonts at the top of your Fonts menu.
# of fonts to keep in history: Select the number of fonts that are to
be stored in the history.
Clear font history: Click this button to empty the recent font history.
Additional Options Enable two-byte script: This option tells Canvas to accommodate text
characters that require twice as much data (two bytes) as text
characters in most Western languages. This makes it possible to create
documents using specialized two-byte fonts, including Chinese, Korean,
and Japanese (see "Tools and options for two-byte and vertical text" on
page 564).
Auto word select: When you use the I-beam pointer to highlight
specific text, this option ensures that you select only whole words (all
characters between blank spaces). As you drag to highlight text, Canvas
detects when you drag over a space. As you continue to drag, Canvas
locates the next space and selects the characters in between.
Draw text as Bézier: When using a 256-color display, Windows
cannot dither colors in text to approximate a non-system color; instead,
Windows uses the closest solid colors. Turning this option on tells
Canvas to redraw text as objects, which lets Windows dither colors when
necessary. This method is resource-intensive and can be slow; turn this
option on only if you need to see dithered color in text on a system with a
256-color display.
Multi-Column Font Menu: When activated, you will view all of the
fonts in your system in a multi-column format. If this feature is not
activated, then you will view your fonts in a single-column format.
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