This document contains important information that is not included in the Canvas manuals.
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Change of Address form
The Change of Address form is at the end of the Reference Manual.
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Running Canvas
To install Canvas on floppy disks, you must first install it on a hard drive, then copy the files onto 1.4 MB floppy disks.
If you are using DiskLight (a Norton Utilities™ Control Panel), turn it off and restart your Macintosh before running Canvas. DiskLight is not compatible with Canvas 3.5.
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Auto Trace
Canvas uses the default foreground and background color, arrow type, arrowhead, dash style, and pen mode; solid black pen pattern; and no fill pattern to create auto traces.
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Bind Text
Correction to the Reference manual, page 25, and the User manual, page 229: You can bind text to a draw object created with a core tool, the Multigon, Pressure Pen, Spiral, or Star tool. You can also bind text to a paint object's bounding rectangle. The bound text and the object can then be modified individually or grouped and modified as a unit.
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CGM files
Correction to the Reference manual, pages 133 and 202: You do not need to hold down the Command key to display the CGM Import Options or CGM Export Options dialog box when opening or saving a CGM file. These dialog boxes display automatically when you open or save a CGM file.
Saving CGM files
For best results when saving a CGM file, choose 32 Bit Fixed Real as your Coordinate Precision option in the CGM Export Options dialog box. This will ensure that the objects in your CGM file appear at the correct size when you open the file in Canvas at a 100% scale.
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Combine
The Combine: Outline option creates a new object with the same foreground and background color, pen and fill pattern, pen size, pen mode, and dash style as the front most object.
If you choose the Combine: Outline option and any of the selected objects are lines, the lines will not be included in the outline.
The Combine: Add option creates a new object with the same foreground and background color, pen and fill pattern, pen size, pen mode, arrowhead, arrow type, and dash style as the back object.
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Dashes
Correction to the Reference manual, page 54: You can change the dash style of objects created with the Pressure Pen tool.
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Dimension objects
Correction to the Reference manual, page 63: Dimension objects use the default arrowhead, not the default arrow type.
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EPSF files
You can select the file type and preview type of EPSF files you save in Canvas. To do so, choose the EPSF file format in the Save As dialog box, and hold down the Command key when you click Save. A dialog box appears with several options.
File Type: Select a File Type that can be read by the program in which you will open your EPSF file. Select EPSF to save the file as an EPSF file. Select TEXT to save the file as a text file.
Preview: Select this checkbox to include a preview with your EPSF file.
If you will open your EPSF file in a Macintosh program, select 1 BIT PICT to include a black-and-white preview, or 8 BIT PICT to include a color preview.
If you will open your EPSF file in a Windows program, select EPSI to include a preview that is compatible across platforms.
Saving EPSF and Separations files
Canvas does not support TrueType fonts in documents you save in the EPSF or Separations file formats. If you try to print such a document, and the printer does not have PostScript versions of the document’s TrueType fonts, the TrueType fonts will be substituted with Courier.
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Extrude
Canvas uses the default dash, arrow type, and arrowhead to create extrusions.
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Fractalize
Correction to the User manual, page 353: The maximum Wiggle and Density values you can type in the Fractal Specifications dialog box are 20 and 5 respectively.
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Opening documents
Canvas can open documents that have been saved in a variety of file formats. When you open a document that was created in another program, however, data can be lost because of non-standard options that Canvas might not support. If you have problems opening a document that was created in another program, try saving the document using the default settings for the file format. Avoid proprietary options to help ensure successful transfer of documents to Canvas.
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PICT files
A PICT file saved in another program might include PICT comments describing specific items (line weights, line types, and so on) that prevent Canvas from correctly translating the file. If you have trouble opening a PICT file from another program, try holding down the Option key as you click Open in the Open dialog box. Holding down the Option key will strip out the comments when you open the file in Canvas.
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Picture objects
To make a picture object in a Canvas 3.5 Macintosh document visible when you open the document in Canvas for Windows, you must convert the picture object to basic Canvas objects. To do so, select the object in the Canvas 3.5 Macintosh document and choose Copy from the Edit menu. Next, hold down the Shift key and choose Paste Without Comments from the Edit menu. Remove the original object from the document and position the pasted object in its place.
To make a picture object in a Canvas for Windows document visible when you open the document in Canvas 3.5 Macintosh, convert the object to a group. To do so, select the object in the Canvas for Windows document and choose the Object Specs command from the Object menu. From the Type box, select group (“G”) and choose the OK button.
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Place command
You cannot undo the Place command.
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Printing color separations
To print color separations of a Canvas illustration from a desktop-publishing program, save the illustration in Canvas using the Separations file format, and choose Xpress Format from the Save Separations Format dialog box. This will create a .C, .M, .Y, .K, and .Main file. Place the .Main file into the desktop-publishing program. You can then print separations of the illustration from within the desktop-publishing program.
Printing gradient fills
To correctly print gradient fills from a PostScript printer, the Separations external tool must be loaded.
Printing with the LaserWriter 8.1.1 printer driver
Due to a limitation in the LaserWriter 8.1.1 printer driver, objects that are not rotated in Canvas 3.5 documents might print rotated. If this occurs, use the Print Special: PostScript command to print the document. You can also try choosing a different version of the LaserWriter printer driver before printing the document.
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Saving documents
Correction to the Reference manual, page 274: The keyboard shortcut for the Save As command is Command-Option-S.
Create Preview checkbox
The Create Preview checkbox in the Save As dialog box saves a preview of a Canvas document for display in an image-browsing program such as Kudo® or Aldus® Fetch™. Select this checkbox if you are saving a Canvas document that you plan to add to an image-browsing catalog. You can then use the image browser to preview the document.
The Create Preview checkbox is dimmed if the file format you chose does not support the Create Preview option, or if your computer does not have Color QuickDraw.
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Text
Correction to the Reference manual, page 266: You can type a text size up to 999 points in the Size text box.
Uppercase, lowercase, and title style
Addition to the User manual, page 210: If you open a document from an earlier version of Canvas in Canvas 3.5, and you want to convert any uppercase, lowercase, or title text to Plain text style, you must retype the text.
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TIFF files
Correction to the Reference manual, page 137: Before opening a large color TIFF file, you should allot 3X the size of the paint object in the TIFF file to Canvas. Refer to the formula on page 315 of the User's manual to calculate the size of a paint object.
For example, if your TIFF file contains a 1-bit, 300 dpi paint object, that is 103 square inches, the size of the paint object is approximately 1130K. Multiply this number by three to get 3390, and add this to the 1500K normally allotted to Canvas. You should therefore allot approximately 5000K to Canvas to successfully open the file.
Saving 8-bit TIFF files
When you save an 8-bit TIFF file in Canvas, the paint object in the file will export as a 32-bit paint object.
Saving TIFF files: Compression options
The Simple Compression option in the TIFF Options dialog box is only available for B & W TIFF files.
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Tint Objects
The Tint Objects option of the Special Effects submenu does not have any effect on text, picture objects, or 8-bit paint objects.
