Publishing, Presenting & Collaborating
Enhancement with Greater Control
Canvas 12 makes it quick and easy to create and share professional publications and presentations, in collaboration with colleagues, in countless ways
Publishing
Access professional publishing tools
With Canvas 12 on your side, there's no need to use a separate word processor or layout program. A full range of traditional text formatting and style tools are on hand to help you format pages, create columns, layout text, wrap and bind. Tap into editing, proofing and annotation tools to perfect your copy. Plus, create text symbols for convenient ongoing use of word segments.
Create documents for every purpose
Canvas 12 offers different document types for different purposes: Illustration, Publication, Animation and Presentation documents. Built-in templates are included for each type to help you hit the ground running.
- Illustration documents are used for all forms of vector object illustration and raster image creation and editing
- Presentation documents are aimed for on-screen slide show presentations. Apply multiple layers, place background elements on a master slide, and choose from over a dozen slide transition effects.
- Publication documents are ideal for single or multiple page technical publications, including two-sided facing pages. Take advantage of master pages to hold items that are to appear throughout the publication, multiple layers, and the Page Navigator palette to easily move among the document pages.
- Animation documents are designed for the creation and editing of web (GIF) animation files. Frames adjacent to the current frame appear in the background, which is helpful for setting up object movement.
Collaborating
Easily annotate and mark-up
Canvas comes complete with a full range of pro-level tools for raster image creation, editing and augmentation, with the additional powerful capability of seamless integration into a vector object illustration workflow. Create, edit and augment raster images, including GIF, JPEG, TIFF, PICT, BMP and EPS, with a host of industry standard and specialized techniques, tools and filters. Design image compositions, retouch photos, paint and color-correct scanned images, create transparency effects and vignettes, age photos, clone pixels and much more.
Collaborate without limits
Share, discuss and develop projects in a free-flowing document exchange. Canvas 12's advanced import and export capabilities allow for the return of annotated illustrations to the high-end specialized formats where they originated, such as CGM and AutoCAD®2, without any original data loss.
Share with confidence
Apply secure encryption and password protection whenever you save your Canvas document or export to Adobe®PDF. You have full control over who can open, edit and print your designs.
Presenting
Create rich data flowcharts
Present visually complex information in a logical and easy to understand format. With Canvas 12's Flowchart palette you can design data flowcharts with unprecedented speed and flexibility. Simply select your symbol size, shape, and Smart Line attributes, and click to place. Customize your flowchart with connection line and shape editing options to complement the overall look and feel of your document.
Print professionally
With Canvas 12, you can rest assured that your projects will look as good on paper as they do on screen. Canvas outputs multi-page Publication documents suitable for desktop and commercial printing, including PostScript printers. Professional print and color management tools, as well as all the advanced image and export formats needed for virtually any publication context, are all on hand. Avoid problematic color shifts and unexpected results by using the Kodak®3 color management system to handle conversion between color systems, such as RGB and CMYK.
Add interactivity to documents
Inject life to your Adobe® PDF and HTML documents. With Canvas 12's Link Manager palette you can insert hyperlinks, and export to HTML and Adobe® PDF with links intact. Web publishing is supported by HTML and WebCGM files.
2 AutoCAD is a registered trademark of AutoDesk.
3 Kodak is a registered trademark of Eastman Kodak.
