User Guide

Canvas 12 User Guide
3. Select the standard stroke type.
4. Select the pen stroke width from the presets list.
To change the pen stroke width of specific objects:
Select one or more objects, then select a new pen stroke from the presets list for standard
strokes.
To change the ink of a pen stroke:
The color of a pen stroke comes from the object’s pen ink. The pen ink can be any of the available ink
types; i.e., gradient, pattern, symbol, color, hatch, or texture.
1. Select one or more objects whose pen ink you want to change.
2. Click the Pen Ink icon in the Toolbox. The Presets palette pops open with the Ink tab selected.
Drag this palette away from the Toolbox to keep the Presets palette open as you work.
3. Select an ink type on the Ink tab. e.g. color, gradient, hatch, symbol, pattern, or texture (see
"Inks: colors & patterns" on page 223).
‘Invisible’ inks
A pen ink is one or more colors that Canvas uses to apply color to pen strokes. The pen ink can be set
to “no ink,” or to a color that blends into the background, which renders a pen stroke invisible.
In some situations, you might want to set an object’s pen ink to “no ink,” rather than remove the
object’s stroke. This can be useful to temporarily hide the stroke without removing the dash, arrow,
and other stroke settings, for example.
To set an object’s pen ink to “no ink”:
This procedure removes the pen ink and makes the stroke invisible.
1. Select the object and click the Pen Ink icon to open the Presets palette with the Ink tab
selected.
2.
Click on the “no ink” icon.
Adding preset arrows to pen strokes
You can add arrowheads to pen, parallel, and neon strokes. You can apply strokes with arrows to
lines and open paths, such as those created with the Curve tool. Arrowheads can appear at one or
both endpoints of a path.
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