User Guide

Canvas 12 User Guide
Designing for the Web
Canvas is an ideal tool for creating graphics and layouts for the World Wide Web. This section
explores how to prepare graphics and documents for publishing on the Web or an Intranet. It
includes information on hyperlinks, slices, animations, Web buttons, and exporting to PDF and Flash.
About hyperlinks and hypertext
After you create illustrations and text for a Web page in Canvas, use the Link Manager palette to link
items to other Web pages and resources on the Internet.
An Internet address is referred to as a URL, an abbreviation of Uniform Resource Locator.
Graphics, such as buttons or images, that lead to other Web pages are called hyperlinks. Text that
contains a hyperlink is sometimes called hypertext. Click a hyperlink on a Web page to jump to
another page or a different site altogether. The Web browser searches the Internet for the address
associated with the hyperlink.
Hyperlinked object Hyperlinked image Hypertext
To create invisible “hotspots,” you can assign URLs to objects that don’t have visible strokes
or fill inks. This lets you designate any area of a Web page as a hyperlink.
You can make hyperlinks by assigning URLs to any page element, including the following:
Vector objects, such as small illustrations.
Image objects, including photos and painted images.
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