User Guide

Chapter 4: Drawing And Vector Effects
Creating flowcharts
In Canvas, you can use the Flowchart palette to create a flowchart using standard flowchart symbols
and lines. You can adjust the pen, fill, dash, and arrow attributes of the lines, the amount of offset
spacing between symbols, the size of the symbols, and the position of symbols relative to each other.
To create a flowchart:
1. Choose Window | Palettes | Flowchart.
2. Drag a flowchart symbol into your document.
3. Add additional symbols, by doing one or more of the following:
Select a symbol in the Flowchart palette, and then click one of the red arrow direction
buttons in the Create Controls section.
Select a symbol in the Flowchart palette, and then click one of the blue arrow direction
buttons in the Branch Controls section.
To set the default attributes of flowchart lines:
In the Flowchart palette, set the Smart Line Attributes to control the pen, fill, dash, and arrow
attributes.
To set the default attributes of flowchart symbols:
1. Make sure that no objects are selected in the document.
2. Set the pen, fill, dash, and arrow attributes in the Toolbox.
To change the attributes of flowchart lines or symbols:
1. Select the flowchart lines or symbols in the document.
2. Set the pen, fill, dash, and arrow attributes in the Toolbox.
As with any Canvas object, you can also change the size of the selected symbols, the
opacity, and effects such as bevel and shadow. You can also align symbols, rotate
them, or skew them.
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