User Guide

Canvas 12 User Guide
To open the Type palette:
Choose Text | Type or double-click the Text tool.
Creating new type styles
You can create two kinds of styles, character and paragraph. Use a paragraph style for an entire
paragraph of text. Use a character style for a character, word, phrase, or part of a paragraph. After
establishing character and paragraph styles, apply them to your text.
Paragraph style attributes:
Leading
Indents
Justification
Drop caps
Hyphens
Letter and word spacing
Text flow settings
Character attributes and colors
Character style attributes:
Font
Type size
Font style
Capitalization style
Baseline position
Kerning
Colors
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