2 Choose Unlink Master in the palette’s menu. The layers of the master page become regular layers of the current page. To link a master page 1 Select the page you want to apply the master page to. 2 Choose Link Master in the palette’s menu. Canvas links the master page to the current page. Other elements on the page are not affected. Dispersing objects You can use the Disperse command to quickly move objects to pages throughout a document. This is useful for creating frames and slides. For example, you can select a series of graphics, and use Disperse to place one graphic on each frame in an Animation document. You can spread objects over existing pages or Canvas will create pages for the objects. Dispersed objects are placed on a new layer on each page. To disperse objects 1 Select the objects to disperse. The objects should be on the same layer and should not be grouped. 2 Choose Object > Arrange > Disperse. 3 In the dialog box, select an option: Dynamic: Canvas will create pages to hold the selected objects. Selected: Click Select to display a list of pages. Shift-click pages to select them, and then click Select. 4 In the text box, type the number of objects to place on each page (Canvas divides the number of objects evenly if you select pages; remaining objects go on the last selected page). Click OK to disperse the selected objects. Using guide and grid layers In addition to general purpose layers, you can use special layers des- ignated to contain drawing aids called guides and grids. Like other layers, guide layers and grid layers appear in the Docu- ment Layout palette. You can arrange these layers by dragging them in the list to place them in front of or behind other layers.
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