User Guide

Canvas 12 User Guide
Text always in front: Because of the way that Canvas renders
SpriteLayer effects, text that is not in front of all other objects can be
output as rendered images rather than text. If you want to avoid
rendering text for printing, select this option. Canvas will print the text
objects in front of all other objects.
If you have text that has special effects or is behind transparent objects,
you should not select this option, so the text will be rendered and printed
as it appears in the document.
Kanji fonts resident: Uses resident Kanji fonts on Postscript printers
when you are printing Japanese text.
Transparency rendering: Choose an option in the Transparency
Rendering menu to specify how transparency and SpriteEffects will be
rendered (converted to pixels for printing).
Smallest area: Renders the area inside the bounding box of all
transparent objects. This generates the least amount of additional
data to print transparency effects. Do not choose this option if you
are printing in color on non-PostScript printers and the document
has vector and transparent objects that share the same color,
because these printers will not match the colors precisely. In some
cases, non-standard PostScript printers might produce a slight
pixel shift between a transparent and non-transparent area of a
vector object. If this happens, select Complete Area.
Complete area: Renders the area within the bounding boxes of all
transparent objects, as well as objects that are overlapped by
transparent objects (or intervening objects). This is the best
setting to use when you print to a non-PostScript printer, such as a
Windows GDI printer, to avoid color-matching problems
Entire document: Renders all objects in the document as one or
more images that are sent to the printer. This is equivalent to
processing the document in an internal RIP (raster image
processor) in Canvas. This option produces the greatest amount of
image data. However, this option can be useful if you experience
problems producing accurate output of transparency or other
effects when you use a particular printer or printer driver.
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