Canvas creates a paint object containing an image of the original objects. The paint object appears in front. The Render command does not change the original selected objects. To see the original objects, you can drag the paint object away. Pasting into images You can render objects by copying them to the Clipboard and then pasting them into paint objects in edit mode. When an image is in edit mode and you paste into it, the Clipboard content is rendered and appears as a selection in the image. If you select the “Anti-aliased Clipboard” option in the Preferences dialog box, Canvas anti-aliases vector and text objects that you paste into paint objects. Rendering exported files If necessary, Canvas renders selected objects or an entire document when you use the Save As command to export to a raster file format. For example, if you select vector objects, and then save in GIF for- mat, Canvas renders the selected objects because GIF files store ras- ter images. When Canvas is saving a file, some options might not be available in the Render Image dialog box because the file format doesn’t support them. Tip Anti-aliasing blurs edges while rendering to make the edges of text characters and vector objects appear smoother in the resulting image.
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