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C A N V A S USER’S GUIDE Mac OS and Windows Notice of Liability The information in this manual is distributed on an “As Is” basis, without warranty. While every precaution was taken in the preparation of this manual, neither the author nor ACD Systems of America, Inc. shall have any liability to any person or entity with respect to any loss or damage caused or alleged to have been caused directly or indirectly by the instructions contained in this manual or by the computer software described in it. ACD Systems reserves the right to make changes to this manual without notice. Trademarks Canvas, SpriteEffects, SpriteLayers, Dynamic Objects, SmartMouse, and SmartLines, and DenebaShare are trademarks of ACD Systems of America, Inc. and may be registered in certain jurisdictions. All Rights Reserved Worldwide. Windows®, Windows ME, Windows 2000, Win- dows XP are trademarks of Microsoft Corp. Adobe®, PostScript, Adobe Illustrator®, and Adobe Photoshop® are trademarks of Adobe Systems, Inc. which may be registered in certain jurisdic- tions. Mac OS, QuickDraw, QuickDraw 3D, QuickTime, MacPaint and TrueType are trade- marks, and Apple, LaserWriter, Macintosh and Power Macintosh are registered trademarks of Apple Computer, Inc. Photo CD is a trademark and KODAK is a registered trademark of East- man Kodak Co. All other brand and product names are the property of their respective holders. Copyright Manual Copyright © 2003 ACD Systems of America, Inc. All Rights Reserved Worldwide. This manual may not be copied, photocopied, reproduced, translated, or converted to any elec- tronic or machine readable form in whole or in part without prior written consent of ACD Sys- tems of America, Inc. Canvas was designed, programmed and is Copyright © 1985-2003 ACD Systems of America, Inc. All Rights Reserved Worldwide. Software is covered by a separate license agreement. First Edition: July 2003 Part Number: C0590-0007-EN Contact Information ACD Systems of America, Inc. 1150 N.W. 72nd Avenue Second Floor Miami, Florida 33126 CONTENTS Chapter 1 Introduction About the documentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.1 Getting help and updating Canvas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1.3 PART 1 GETTING STARTED Chapter 2 Tutorials Canvas basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2.1 Chapter 3 Drawing Basics in Canvas Using drawing tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.1 Inks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.6 Strokes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3.7 Chapter 4 Drawing simple illustrations …