User Guide

Chapter 2: Documents and Setup
3. Select options in the dialog box that appears and click OK to save the file.
When you save a Canvas document in EPS format, you could lose specialized objects and attributes
that are not supported in EPS. Canvas transparency effects are rendered and stored as images in EPS
graphics, using the Transparency Rendering option and resolution that you select.
EPSF Type: Choose EPS to create a composite (non-separated) EPS file. Choose DCS Version
2 to create a single, pre-separated EPS file in DCS version 2.0 format. You can use a DCS file
to output color separations from programs that support this format.
Current Page: Saves the current page, slide, sheet, or frame only. To save a range of
pages, enter the starting and ending page numbers in the From and To boxes.
Preview: Select a format to store a preview image in the EPS file. Canvas and other
programs that support EPS previews will display the preview when the EPS file is placed in a
document. The image format and color mode you select are applied to the preview image
only.
Choose None for no preview, or choose a color mode to save a preview image. Preview images
are saved in TIFF format. A preview will not appear in programs that support only WMF or
EMF previews.
Use Compression: Select this option to compress TIFF preview images. Some programs can
display only non-compressed TIFF previews. If TIFF preview images do not appear correctly,
try deselecting this option.
Image Compression: Select a format for storing raster image data. Binary is the most
compact non-compressed format. ASCII encodes raster data as text, the least compact
format. Level 2 ASCII is somewhat more compact than ASCII format. RLE compresses binary
data and makes the most compact EPS files. To save EPS files for Photoshop or Illustrator,
use Binary format.
Color Mode for EPS format: Select a color mode to apply to colors in the EPS file. The
available modes correspond to RGB, CMYK, Grayscale, and Black & White modes for paint
objects. Colors created with RGB, HSL, CMYK, or grayscale values will be converted to the
selected mode in the EPS file. Spot colors defined in Canvas with the Spot Color option in the
Color manager or a spot color library will be saved in the EPS file as spot colors, and also with
color values in the selected mode. If you print color separations from an EPS file in another
program, you can usually output process and spot color plates, or just process color plates,
depending on whether you specify spot and process separations or process-only
separations.
Color Mode for DCS format: Select a color mode for the separations stored in the EPS file.
Select CMYK to separate all colors, including spot colors, as process (CMYK) colors. Select
CMYK + Spot to separate all colors, except spot colors, as process (CMYK) colors. Spot colors
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