User Guide

Canvas 12 User Guide
Place options
When you place a file with multiple pages or layers, the Place Options dialog box lets you specify how
the placed file should be added to the current document.
Place on current
layer
Places the file’s objects on the current layer of the current page. No
pages or layers are created in the current document.
Show Place Cursor Select this option if you want to set the position or size of placed items on
the current page. After you click OK in the Place Options dialog box, a
place pointer appears. Click to set the position of the upper-left corner of
the placed items, or drag to enclose an area in which you want the
placed items to fit.
Add new layer(s) to
current page
Places the document’s layers as new layers on the current page in the
current document.
Add new page(s) Places the document’s pages and layers as new pages and layers in the
current document.
Select Click to choose specific pages or layers to place. A dialog box lists the
available items. Shift-click two items to select a range. Ctrl-click to select
multiple items and toggle selected items. Click OK to close the dialog
box.
Saving Canvas documents
In Canvas you can choose to save an entire document, a selection, or a layer. You can also use
compression, or apply a password to protect a document.
Use one of the following:
Save: Updates a document file on disk and overwrites the previously saved version.
Save As: Lets you create a new file on disk from an open document, save documents as
templates, and use other graphics and text file formats.
When you use these commands, the default format for storing documents is the native Canvas
format.
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