User Guide

Canvas 12 User Guide
To select a starting or ending arrowhead: Click either side of the icon. The left or right
arrow icon will be highlighted.
To select a double-sided arrowhead: Click the round button in the middle. Both the left
and right arrow icons are highlighted. The arrows in the scroll list preview the selected
arrowhead.
Starting arrow
Ending arrow
Double-sided
To apply different arrowheads to each end of a stroke:
1. Select object to which you want to apply arrowheads.
2. Apply the first arrowhead by clicking on either the left or right Arrow icon in the Toolbox and
selecting an arrowhead.
3. Then, shift-click the other Arrow icon and select a different arrowhead. Now, both ends of
the stroke should have different arrows.
Adding dashes to strokes
You can add a variety of preset dash sequences to pen and neon strokes. You can apply a stroke with
dashes to most objects, including lines, open and closed Bézier curves, polygons, rectangles, ovals,
and stars.
Parallel line strokes can also include dashes. However, you select dashes for parallel lines when you
customize the stroke in the Parallel stroke manager in the Attributes palette (see "Customizing
parallel line strokes" on page 275).
To add dashes to pen and neon strokes:
1. Depending on how you want dashes to apply, do one of the following:
To apply dashes to the current stroke: Deselect all objects.
To apply dashes to an object that has a pen or neon stroke: Select the object.
2. Click the Strokes icon in the Toolbox to open the Presets palette. Select the Dash tab.
3. Choose the dash sequence that you want in the list of presets.
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