User Guide

Chapter 6: Text And Typography
family; e.g., if you base ten styles on Body1, and later decide that you want Body1 (but not the whole
family of styles) to be double spaced, you must first change the leading for Body1, then remove the
leading setting from each of the other ten styles.
Saving and loading type styles
You can save type styles to files and then load them into other documents. This feature helps
maintain consistency between documents, and lets you share type styles with other Canvas users.
To save a type style to disk:
1. Click the Type palette menu button on the Styles tab.
2. Choose Save style.
3. In the Save As dialog box, type a file name and specify a location to save the file.
4. Click Save.
To load a type style:
1. Click the Type palette menu button on the Styles tab.
2. Choose Load style.
3. In the Open dialog box, locate and select the styles file.
4. Click Open.
Copying type styles between documents
Another way to transfer type styles from one document to another is to copy text that uses the style
and paste the text into a different document. Canvas transfers the style with the text. When you save
the document, Canvas also stores the transferred style.
A type style based on another style cannot inherit attributes across documents; e.g., Body2 is based
on a parent style, Body1, and you copy only Body2 to a new document. Body2 in the new document
no longer inherits attributes from Body1, which is still in the original document.
However, if you copy both Body1 and Body2 to a new document, the relationship is preserved, and
Body2 will inherit attributes from its parent style.
If you happen to paste a style that already exists in the other document, Canvas modifies the name of
the pasted style to avoid overriding type styles; e.g., a style named “Body 2” could become “Body 2 -
2” when pasted in the new document.
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