CHAPTER
WEB PUBLISHING
The integrated illustration and image editing features contained
inside Canvas creates an ideal enviornment for the creation of Inter-
net graphics. The exercises in this chapter will show you how easy it
is to prepare documents and images for Web deployment. At the end
of this section, you will be able to create Web buttons, animated
GIF's, hyperlinks, and Web pages. Canvas also contains many other
advanced Web design tools, like slicing and the HTML export of the
sliced images as well as Flash and PDF export (refer to Web pub-
lishing, in the Canvas Users Guide).
Creating objects for the Web
The Web Button tool is used to create clickable objects that can eas-
ily be placed inside a document that is destined for Internet or Intra-
net deployment. Web buttons will change their appearance when a
Web site visitor places the mouse pointer over the button. Addition-
ally, the image can be set to change when the button is clicked.
Remember, any Canvas object -- text, illustration, or image -- can be
used as Web button components. You will also see how easy it is to
place, store, share and reuse a Web button after it has been created.
Web buttons
This lesson will show you how to create a clickable Web button and
place the button on a Web page.
To begin, open the document named Buttons.cnv in the Tutorial
folder. The document contains three numbered illustrations. Youll
assemble a Web button from the illustrations.
To create Web buttons
1
Select the Web Button tool in the Object tools palette.
2
Double-click the Web Button tool icon to open the Web But-
tons palette.
3
Click the arrow at the bottom-left of the palette. This expands
the palette so you can create buttons.
4
To create a button, youll drag three illustrations into the Web
Buttons palette to establish the three button states.
Tip
Any Canvas document can
also be quickly converted
into a PDF document. Once
converted to PDF, a Canvas
project can be electronically
distributed to anyone with-
out concerns of cross-plat-
form issues.
Web Button tool
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