Canvas Tools Canvas Tools Selection tools Painting Line Selection Paint Brush Line Lasso selection Pencil Kinked Direct edit lasso selection Eraser Smooth Kinked Direct group selection Marker Basic Direct edit selection Airbrush Dogleg Connector Hyperlink pointer Neon Polygon Bucket Smooth Polygon Blend Connection Point Rectangle Rectangle Blur Path Rounded Rectangle Sharpen Gridmaker Path Rubber Stamp Cube Polygon Smudge Multigon Smooth Polygon Dodge EasyShapes Freehand B
Canvas 12 Quick Reference Dimensioning Text Miscellaneous Linear Text Knife Baseline Text Object Scissor Chain Text Link Slice Creator Angle Text Unlink Page Crop Perpendicular Link Info Web Button Object Side Text Path Animated GIF Radius Text Form Field Calendar Diameter Text Section Create OLE/Active X Control Center Text Format Brush Vector Gradient Area Registration Mark Markup Perimeter 3D View Markup Highlighter Markup Pen Circle Redline Rectangle Redline Basic Annot
Canvas Menus Canvas Menus File Edit Text Object Path New... Undo Font Align Edit Path Open... Redo Size Arrange Live Curve Editing Close Again Style Move... Join Browse with ACDSee... Cut Justification Scale... Smart Join... Copy Leading Scale by Area/Perimeter... Fit Bezier... Place... Paste Kerning Group Reduce Points... Save Clear Insert Ungroup Add Points... Save As...
Canvas 12 Quick Reference Layout Effects Display Rotate Right Mode Display Options... Rotate Left Document Layout... Image GIS Window Help Palettes Canvas 12 Help Select GIS Document Settings Toolbox Getting Started Horizontalize Area GIS Positioning Docking Bar Proxy Create Graticule Show/Hide Canvas Assistant Choose Reference Point Show/Hide Toolbar Freeform Filter Sheets Flip Adjust Layers Bind Text Histogram...
Canvas Shortcuts Canvas Shortcuts Viewing and navigating Action Shortcut Scroll with the Hand tool Hold down the Spacebar and drag in the layout area Zoom in Ctrl+ Alt+ Plus (+) Ctrl+Spacebar and click Zoom out Ctrl + Alt + Minus (-) Ctrl+Spacebar+Shift-click Open a context menu Click right mouse button Drawing and creating objects Action Shortcut Snap to 45-degree angles Hold down Shift as you drag Draw from the center Press Ctrl and drag Copy object Press Ctrl and drag object Make multi
Canvas 12 Quick Reference Text and typography Action Shortcut Scale all text in a selected text object Press Alt and drag a handle on the text object Open the Type palette Ctrl + T or double-click Text tool icon Force a line break without creating a new paragraph (insert a soft return) Press Shift+Return Move insertion point to...
Canvas Shortcuts Painting and editing images Action Shortcut In paint edit mode, set foreground color to black and background color to white Press C Swap foreground and background colors Press X Set the opacity for a painting tool (if applicable) Press a number key while the tool is selected; click the tool again Crop a paint object (hard crop) Press Ctrl and drag a handle on the selected paint object with the Selection (arrow) tool Constrain brush strokes to straight horizontal or vertical movem
Canvas 12 Quick Reference Selecting painting tools Tool Key (press with paint object in edit mode) Airbrush A Marquee, Oval Marquee, Row Selection, Column Selection M Blur F Pencil P Blend G Paintbrush B Bucket K Remote Move V Burn N Rubber Stamp S Dodge O Sharpen R Eraser E Smudge U Lasso L Sponge D Marker H Wand W Neon T Tool Key (press with paint object in edit mode) Editing vector paths Action Shortcut Place selected path in edit mode Press Ctrl+E Use the p
