User Guide

Canvas 12 User Guide
To apply a fill ink or select a background color for painting:
Click the ink button on the Toolbar. If no objects are selected, the ink becomes the current fill ink
or background color.
To apply a pen ink or select a foreground color for painting:
Press Ctrl and click the ink button. If no objects are selected, the ink becomes the current pen ink
or foreground color.
Saving document templates
You can use a special kind of Canvas document, called a template, as the basis for new documents.
Canvas includes many ready-made templates, and you can create your own template documents.
Then, when you use the New command, you can select a template — either one supplied with Canvas
or one you have created — to create a new document based on the contents and configuration of the
template.
A template document stores almost all preferences settings, as well as the settings you specify with
the Document Setup command, and other document setup options, including the following:
Document type
Configuration of layers, slides, pages, sheets and frames
Settings for rulers, grids, guides, and views
Current inks and strokes settings
Text styles and default text settings
Multiple Save options
Canvas stores some settings with the application and not in particular documents, so these settings
are not included in a template document. The settings that aren’t stored in a template include the
position of palettes on the screen and the current set of external tools.
If you create a template with a small amount of type, such as for a letterhead, convert the
type to paths so the template can be used without particular fonts being available.
To save a template document:
1. Choose File | New to create a new Illustration, Presentation, Animation, or Publication
document.
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