User Guide

Canvas 12 User Guide
Drawing registration marks manually
Use the Registration Mark tool to manually draw registration marks around a graphic for which you
intend to print separations. Use the Registration Mark tool when:
The size of the graphic occupies the printable area, therefore preventing the print separation
marks from appearing.
You layout different graphics on a single sheet and plan to print each graphic individually.
To draw registration marks:
1.
Select the Registration Mark tool.
2. In the Properties bar, set the location, default size, and fill color of the registration mark,
then click the Create button.
This draws the first registration mark, and sets the defaults for registration marks in the
current Canvas session.
3. Select the Registration Mark tool again, then click in your document to draw additional
registration marks.
If you want to place a registration mark in a precise location, you can select the registration
mark in your document, and set the X/Y coordinates in the Properties bar.
Drawing crop marks
For print production, you can draw crop marks around specific objects in your document. This is
useful when you want to control the exact placement of crop marks, or you want to output several
illustrations with crop marks around each illustration on one page.
Crop marks are short vertical and horizontal lines that indicate the border where an illustration or
page can be trimmed.
When you use the Crop Marks commands, Canvas draws the crop marks as vector lines on the
current layer in the document. Each crop mark consists of two lines. You can select the lines and
perform operations on them as you would other vector objects.
To place crop marks:
1. Select the objects you want to place crop marks around. You can select one or more objects
of any type.
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