Creating and customizing inks You can use the Inks Managers to create your own inks. Managers are sets of controls at the bottom of the tabs in the Inks palette. You can flip open the managers to create inks, adjust inks in objects, and change the palette’s inks. Described next are ways to change the Inks palette and use Inks man- agers in general. The rest of the chapter explains how to customize color inks, gradient inks, hatch inks, symbol inks, and texture inks. Changing the Inks palette You can do the following to customize the Inks palette: •    Delete inks you no longer want to use. •    Add new inks to the palette. •    Save the inks on each tab in an inks file. •    Load inks from a file to replace the current inks. •    Append inks from a file to add them to the palette. •    Display color names When you add or delete inks in the palette, the changes are recorded in a Canvas Settings file, not in the Canvas document, so the palette contents remain the same the next time you use Canvas. Using the Inks palette in a floating window To keep the Inks palette open, press either ink icon in the toolbox and drag the palette away. The palette remains open in a floating window. To apply inks to selected objects: Click the pen ink (A) or fill ink (B) icon, then click an ink. If you click an ink with no objects select- ed, the ink becomes the current ink applied to new objects. To drag and drop inks: Drag an ink from the grid to an object’s outline (for a pen ink) or the inside of the object (for a fill ink). To remove an ink from the palette: Drag it to the trash can (C). A C B
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