User Guide

Canvas 12 User Guide
You can enter a relative path or a complete URL in the Link field. When you use the Browse button in
the Link Manager palette, Canvas can enter a relative path or a complete URL.
Creating PDF hotspots
In Canvas you can create hotspot links for selected areas of a graphic. For example, if you wanted to
use a graphic for navigation between the pages, you could add hotspots to the graphic so that users
can jump from page to page in the PDF.
By default hotspots are not printed when you print a Canvas document, but you can choose to print
them if you need to. To set a hotspot to printable or to delete a hotspot, you must unlock the hotspot
object first.
PDF documents only support rectangular hotspots, so when you export a Canvas document
to PDF, all hotspots become rectangle objects.
To create a hotspot:
1. In your document, do one of the following:
Select an object in the graphic.
Draw a rectangle over the area you want to set as a hotspot.
2. In the Link Manager palette, click one of the following:
Set Hotspot: Creates a new hotspot object over top of the existing object.
Convert to Hotspot: Replaces the existing object with a hotspot object.
3. Enter the Link, Title, and Target.
4. Click Apply.
You might choose to create a separate layer for hotspot objects as a way of organizing
them.
To remove a hotspot link:
1. Select the hotspot object.
2. In the Link Manager palette, click Remove.
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