User Guide

Canvas 12 User Guide
Registration Marks: Registration marks around a graphic for which you intend to print
separations
EasyShapes: All kinds of shapes, including arrows, flow chart boxes, dialog balloons,
symbols, and banners
Calendar: Calendars
Smart Lines: Connect objects with smart lines.
In most cases, you can treat these vector objects like all others. You can move them and resize their
bounding boxes. They can be rotated, flipped, and scaled. You can apply strokes, pen inks and fill
inks to them. However, most of these objects are compound objects, which means that they are made
up of separate objects. Therefore, some inks and other effects appear differently when applied to
these objects than to simple vector objects like rectangles and ovals.
Some of the specialized objects have unique editing features. For example, you can twirl the points of
a star, star outline, or framed star by dragging special handles. You can also specify the number of
points of a star, the number of rows and columns in a grid, the number of rings in concentric circles,
and the number of revolutions in a spiral. You can draw a cube with or without a perspective effect.
Methods for drawing and modifying all of the specialized objects appear with the individual tool
descriptions that follow.
You can also convert most specialized vector objects to paths, which lets you edit the object anchor
points and segments (see "Converting objects and text to paths" on page 343).
Drawing concentric circles
The Concentric Circles tool draws nested rings of ovals or circles. You can set the number and
spacing of the rings before or after you draw concentric circles.
To use the Concentric Circles tool:
1.
Select the Concentric Circles tool.
2. Drag to draw a bounding box that defines the size of the concentric circles object. A
rectangular bounding box creates concentric ovals; a square bounding box creates true
circles.
3. When you finish, the concentric circles object is selected.
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