User Guide

Chapter 2: Documents and Setup
From Screen: In Presentations and Animations, you can base the size of the layout area on
the monitor’s size. To do this, choose From Screen.
Orientation
To change the orientation of the document, click the button in the Orientation area. This swaps the
width and height values of the document.
Margins
To set margin size for two-sided Publications, enter the Inside, Outside, Top, and Bottom margins in
the text boxes in the Margins area. For single-sided Publications, enter Right, Left, Top, and Bottom
margins. The margin is measured from the edge of the paper. Margins are not available in other
document types.
On screen, the document’s margins appear as a dashed line. The page boundary appears as a solid
line around the edge of the layout area. Make sure the margins are not outside the page boundary
(see "Matching documents to printer pages" on page 74).
Page layout
To specify multiple pages per sheet in a Publication, choose Tent Card or Greeting Card in the Sheet
Layout pop-up menu.
Facing pages
To create double-sided pages, select Facing Pages. When Facing Pages is on, the document has a left
and a right master page that you can apply to its left-hand and right-hand pages. This option is
available in Publication documents only. Note that once you select Facing Pages for a Publication, it
cannot be undone or changed to another document type.
Paper color
Lets you apply a solid color to the document layout area. The paper color is for display purposes only
and does not print. To apply a paper color, select a color from the pop-up palette.
When objects are partially transparent, the paper color is visible through the objects.
However, while the paper color is not visible through solid objects, in the real world, the
colors of objects will be affected by the color of the paper they are printed on; e.g., a yellow
circle printed on blue paper will appear green. This is not shown on screen in Canvas when
you use the Paper Color option.
Canvas includes the paper color when it renders transparent objects, so the paper color affects the
rendered image the same as it does on screen in Canvas.
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