User Guide

Canvas 12 User Guide
To save a Favorite inks palette:
1. Click on the Favorite inks icon.
2. Open the Presets palette menu.
3. Select Save Favorites Inks.
4. Enter a file name and click Save.
Loading, appending, and clearing inks
You can load, and append inks for one ink type at a time in the Presets palette.
Load: Loads inks from a palette file, replacing the ink type currently open in the Presets
palette. In the dialog box, select a file and click Open.
Append: Adds inks from a palette file to the ink type currently open in the Presets palette. In
the dialog box, select a palette file and click Open.
Clear: Removes the inks (except “no ink”) from the current palette.
Applying inks to objects
You can apply inks to two areas of vector objects and text:
Pen ink Ink used for the strokes of objects and text characters.
Fill ink Ink used for the interior of objects and text characters.
Objects can have different inks for a fill ink and a pen ink; e.g., a gradient fill and a pattern pen ink.
In addition, you can apply inks to the backgrounds, outlines, and frame of text objects.
If an object has neither a pen ink nor a fill ink, the object is not visible.
Remember that you don’t apply inks to paint objects. Instead, use painting tools to paint in a paint
object and give it color (see "Painting & image-editing" on page 406).
Applying fill inks to open and closed paths
Whether a vector object path is open or closed affects the appearance of its fill ink. In a closed path,
the ink completely fills the object’s interior; in an open path, the ink fills inside the path as if the path
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