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DOCUMENT LAYOUT
Canvas provides great flexibility in document layout. You can use
multiple pages and layers in any document. You can set up master
pages, shared layers, guide layers, and grid layers. Layout options
also include slide transitions and timing for GIF animations.
This chapter describes document layout options and procedures,
including how to add, delete, and arrange pages and layers, and use
the Document Layout palette.
About document pages and layers
You can create four types of documents in Canvas: Illustrations, Pub-
lications, Presentations, and Animations. The common elements of
all document types are pages and layers.
Pages
All Canvas documents can contain multiple pages. Here, pages is
used as a general term for elements that make up a document.
Publications can have single or facing pages.
Illustrations have pages, called sheets, which are single-
sided.
Presentations have pages, called slides, which can be dis-
played in sequence as slide shows.
Animations have pages, called frames, which form ani-
mation sequences for animated GIF files.
In the Document Layout palette, pages are at the top level of the lay-
out hierarchy, followed by layers, groups, and objects.
The Layout area in Canvas represents a document page. Page icons
below the document window show the sequence of pages in a docu-
ment. The icon for the current page is shaded.
Layers
A layer is a transparent level that objects are placed on. Pages are
made of one or more layers. When you place or draw objects on a
page, you actually place the objects on the pages layers.
Layout area