Printing effects When you print from Canvas, preserving effects should not be a problem, as long as effects plug-ins are available in Canvas when the document is printed. Whether you print directly to an output device or to a PostScript file, Canvas renders effects before printing. This is true unless, in the Print dialog box, you set Transparency Rendering to “Don’t Render Transparent Objects.” When this setting is selected, the only SpriteEffects that will be printed are lens objects that have no effects except magnification and viewpoints. Rendering effects You can preserve the appearance of effects by rendering objects before sharing a Canvas document. Rendering converts SpriteEffects and objects into static images. Effects and objects are not editable after conversion to images. You can use several methods to render SpriteEffects: •   Use the Camera tool to take a snapshot of an illustration. This renders the area you select. •   Select objects that have effects, including lenses, and choose Image > Area > Render. •   Save a document in an image file format, such as BMP, GIF, JPEG, PCX, or TIFF. Canvas will render the document as an image before saving the file.
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