Canvas 3.5 Demonstration Script (Power Macintosh version)
This document contains instructions for demonstrating the Power Macintosh version of Canvas 3.5 using the Canvas Demonstration document.
Installing Canvas
To install Canvas from the CD, drag the "Canvas™ 3.5-Macintosh" folder to your hard disk. This folder contains the Canvas program and the Canvas Demonstration document. Do not run the Canvas demonstration from the CD. Canvas requires a memory allocation of at least 2,500 KB to open the Canvas Demonstration document.
Starting Canvas
To begin the demonstration, double-click the Canvas Demonstration document icon in the Canvas folder. Immediately press and hold down the Space bar. Continue holding down the Space bar as the Canvas startup screen appears. Once the message "Loading ToolPicker" appears on the right of the startup screen, release the Spacebar.
Use the ToolPicker to load Canvas tools
After the Canvas startup screen closes, the Canvas Tool Picker dialog box opens and you can select tools to load.
1) Click the All Tools button to mark all the tools in the list for loading.
2) Click the OK button to launch Canvas. After all the tools load, the Canvas Demonstration document appears.
Blend multiple objects
The first screen shows a weather forecast illustration. You will create a new picture by blending Friday's picture and Sunday's picture.
1) Click the sun in the Friday picture. Selection handles appear around the picture.
2) Hold down the Shift key and click the clouds in the Sunday picture. Selection handles appear around the picture.
3) Press Command-Option-B. The Blend dialog box opens. Type the number 1 in the Shapes text box.
4) Click the OK button or press Enter. Canvas blends the two pictures to create the Saturday picture.
5) Near the bottom-left corner of the screen, next to the word "Blends," is an arrow pointing up. Hold down the Option key and click the arrow. The screen changes to the next layer.
Stretch Bézier text characters
This screen shows a large word, "Light" above a smaller word, "House." You will change the shape of two letters to create a custom logo.
1) Click the letter "L" at the beginning of the word "Light." Selection handles appear around the letter.
2) Hold down the Shift key and click the letter "T" at the end of the word "Light." Selection handles appear around the letter.
3) Press Command-E to place both selected letters in edit mode. Editing points appear around the letter shapes.
4) Start with the pointer to the left of the letter "L" and drag a selection rectangle completely around the base of the letter, selecting all the editing points at the base of the letter.
5) Hold down the Shift key and drag a selection rectangle around the base of the letter "T," selecting all the edit points in the base of the letter.
6) Put the pointer on an edit point at the bottom of the letter "L." When the pointer becomes a plus sign (+), drag the pointer downward. The base of the "L" and the "T" move downward together. Drag the base of the letters down to the bottom of the word "House."
7) Press the Enter key.
8) Hold down the Option key and click the arrow pointing up at the bottom of the screen.
Create a 3-D extrusion
The screen shows an illustration of a gear. The center of the gear has been extruded to create a three-dimensional appearance. You will extrude the outer part of the gear.
1) Click one of the teeth on the outer edge of the large gear. Selection handles appear around the gear.
2) In the Effects menu, choose the Extrude command. In the Extrude Object dialog box, type .5 in the X Offset text box, type .5 in the Y Offset text box, and type 100 in the Percentage text box.
3) Click the OK button or press Enter. Canvas extrudes the outer gear.
4) Hold down the Option key and click the arrow pointing up at the bottom of the screen.
Place dimensions with the Smart Mouse™
You will use the Smart Mouse to align dimensions in an architectural illustration.
1) In the Layout menu, choose the Smart Mouse command.
2) In the Tool Box on the left of the Window, press the Concentric Circle tool icon (A). The Object Tools palette opens (B). Press the Dimensioning tool icon in the palette. The Dimensioning tool palette opens (C). Select the Vertical Baseline icon (see below).
3) Move the mouse to the right of the Window illustration. Canvas displays source lines pointing to the illustration.
4) Move the mouse until a source line points to the top of the window illustration, then click the mouse button.
5) Move the mouse down until a source line points to the top of the window louvers. Click once, then move the mouse to the right to position the dimension. Click to anchor the dimension object.
6) Move the mouse down toward the bottom of the window drawing. Click to make a second measurement. Move the mouse to position the dimension object and click to fix it in place.
7) Move the mouse down to the bottom of the window and click to make a final measurement. Move the mouse to the right to place this dimension and click to fix it in place. Then press the Enter key.
8) In the Layout menu, choose the Smart Mouse command to turn off the Smart Mouse feature.
9) Hold down the Option key and click the arrow pointing up at the bottom of the screen.
Punch a hole in a background object
In this layer you will open a "hole" in the background to reveal a photo behind the illustration.
1) Click the black area under the word "Lighthouse."
2) Hold down the Shift key and click the middle of the white rectangle on the right of the screen.
3) In the Object menu, choose the Group Composite command. Canvas makes the white rectangle transparent, revealing the photo of a lighthouse behind the black background.
4) Hold down the Option key and click the arrow pointing up at the bottom of the screen.
Wrap text around two objects
In this illustration, you will wrap a text block around a decorative drop cap and a circular logo.
1) Click the large letter "S" at the upper-left corner of the illustration. Selection handles appear around the letter.
2) Hold down the Shift key and click the center of the circular logo on the right of the illustration.
3) Hold down the Shift key and click the center of the main block of text.
4) In the Text menu, choose the Wrap command and choose the Outside Shape option in the submenu. Canvas wraps the text around the drop cap and the circular logo.
5) Hold down the Option key and click the arrow pointing up at the bottom of the screen.
Reshape the envelope around a logo
In the final layer, you will warp a logo to make it fit inside a flag shape.
1) Click one of the text characters in the "SFLC" logo. Selection handles appear around the logo.
2) In the Effects menu, choose the Envelope command and choose the Straight Line option in the submenu. Canvas displays an "envelope" around the SFLC logo.
3) Move the pointer to the upper-right corner of the envelope. The pointer changes to a plus sign (+) when it is on the corner point.
4) Drag the corner point down so that the top of the envelope is parallel to the top of the flag outline. Canvas reshapes the text characters to conform to the envelope shape.
5) Press the Enter key.
You have finished the Canvas demonstration. Close the document without saving changes that you made.
1) In the File menu, choose the Close command. A dialog box asks if you want to save changes to the document. Click the Don't Save button.
2) To quit Canvas, choose the Quit command in the File menu.
