User Guide

Canvas 12 User Guide
To identify inks with color icons:
Color icons help you identify RGB, CMYK, and spot colors when working with the color inks.
Selecting Show Color Icons only affects the appearance of the color inks in the Presets
palette. The other inks are not affected.
To display color icons:
Select the color ink icon and open the palette menu. Choose Show Color Icons.
To hide the color icons:
Choose Hide Color Icons in the menu.
RGB color
CMYK color
Spot color
The color inks can contain inks defined with RGB, CMYK, grayscale, and spot colors.
The symbol for RGB color inks has tiny red and blue triangles and a green square. The
symbol appears at the upper-left of RGB color cells.
The symbol for spot color inks is a white triangle. The symbol appears at the lower-right of
spot color cells. If the Show Color Names option is activated, no symbol appears for the spot
color.
No symbol appears on CMYK or Grayscale ink cells.
When working with color inks, if the Ink tab contains only CMYK colors, no symbols appear
when you choose Show Color Icons.
Arranging ink cells
To rearrange ink cells in the Presets palette:
Drag a cell within the palette and drop it where you want to place it.
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