User Guide
Chapter 2: Documents and Setup
sizes of paper or complex documents where you want to focus on a single component. Once you have
set a print area, you can choose to toggle it on or off depending on whether you want to print just the
print area or the entire document.
To set the print area:
1. Choose File | Print Area | Set Print Area.
2. Use the Print Area cursor to draw a box around the area you want to print.
3. In the Print Area dialog box, check and adjust the Left, Top, Width, and Height
measurements as necessary.
4. Click the OKbutton.
An orange box appears in the document to indicate the printable area.
To toggle the print area on or off:
In the Properties bar, select or deselect the Print area check box.
When the print area is on, an orange box appears to indicate the printable area. When the print
area is off, the orange box disappears.
To remove the print area:
Choose File | Print Area | Clear Print Area.
Troubleshooting document printing
A few key factors affect how Canvas prints a document. Canvas decides which objects to print based
on the following:
Document boundary: Canvas does not print objects that are outside the layout area (the
rectangle that represents the document on screen). Objects that are partly inside and partly
outside the layout area will be cropped in the printout.
Visible layers: Objects on layers that are not visible are not printed.
Printable layers: If a layer’s print option (in the Document Layout palette) is off, nothing on
the layer is printed.
Printable objects: If an object is made non-printable (in the Document Layout palette or
the Trap tab in Object Specs), the object will not print.
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