User Guide

Canvas 12 User Guide
To move objects touching an alignment guide:
Press Ctrl as you drag an alignment guide. This method does not apply to alignment objects on a
guide layer.
To set up alignment objects:
1. Select one or more vector objects.
2. Choose Object | Arrange | Send to Guide Layer. Canvas moves the selected objects to the
guide layer on the current page.
The ink and stroke attributes of guide objects are overridden by default on guide layers. Guide
objects appear with a blue pen ink, a 1-point stroke, and no fill ink.
If you move an alignment object off a guide layer, its original attributes reappear.
You can edit guide objects without moving them off a guide layer; e.g., you can select a guide object,
drag its selection handles, use freeform mode to transform it, and use edit mode to reshape it.
To position guides numerically:
After you place a guide line in a document, you can set its position numerically.
1. Double-click an alignment guide to open the Guides dialog box.
2. Select Horizontal or Vertical to set the guide’s orientation.
3. Enter the Guide position in the text box. Positive values go down and to the right from the
zero point. Negative values go up and to the left.
4. Click OK.
When you enter a value for the position of a guide, you can use the current measurement units, or
enter a unit abbreviation; e.g., to place a vertical guide 3 inches to the right of the zero point, type
“3in” (without quotes) if the current units are not inches. To set a horizontal guide 2 picas above the
zero point, type “-2p”.
Document layout
You can use multiple pages and layers in any document as well as set up master pages, shared
layers, guide layers, and grid layers. Layout options also include slide transitions and timing for GIF
animations (see "Creating slide shows" on page 728 and "Working with animated GIFs" on page
712).
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