Printing documents
Canvas works with all standard desktop printing devices, including
PostScript and non-PostScript printers. You can print Canvas docu-
ments using black-and-white or color devices.
This section focuses on printing to desktop printers. For complete
information on printing options and special printing situations,
including color separations, refer to on-line Help in Canvas. For
information on installing, setting up and selecting a printer to use,
refer to your operating system documentation.
How Canvas prints documents
A few key factors affect how Canvas prints a document. Canvas
decides which objects to print based on the following:
Document boundary. Canvas does not print objects that are
outside the layout area (the rectangle that represents the
document on screen). Objects that are partly inside and
partly outside the layout area will be cropped in the printout.
Visible layers. Objects on layers that are not visible are not
printed.
Printable layers. If a layers print option (in the Document
Layout palette) is off, nothing on the layer is printed.
Printable objects. If an object is made non-printable (in the
Document Layout palette or the Trap tab in Object Specs),
the object will not print.
Using Page Setup
To access the Page Setup dialog box, choose File > Page Setup. The
page setup affects the documents layout area in Canvas and the way
a document is printed. Its best to set these options when you create a
document so you can see page breaks correctly on-screen.