Type preferences The Type tab in the Preferences dialog box lets you customize options for text and typography. Note: Some options on the Type tab are different for Mac OS and Windows versions of Canvas, as noted in this section. Drag & Drop Text With this option on, you can highlight specific text, then drag the highlighted text to a new location within the same text object. Auto Word Select When you use the I-beam pointer to highlight specific text, this option ensures that you select only whole words (all characters between blank spaces). As you drag to highlight text, Can- vas detects when you drag over a space. As you continue to drag, Canvas locates the next space and selects the characters in between. Smart Copy With this option on, if you copy and paste text that begins a paragraph, Canvas pastes the text as a new paragraph using the original paragraph settings. With this option off, Canvas pastes text into the current paragraph using the existing paragraph settings. Use Smart Quotes Select this option if you want Canvas to insert true typographical apostrophes (’), single quotation marks (‘’), and double quotation marks (“”) when you type these characters with the Text tool. Otherwise, these characters appear as straight tick marks, or foot (') and inch (") marks. Of course, the actual appearance of the characters depends on the design of the typeface in use. The character that Canvas inserts when you type a quotation mark depends on the position of the insertion point in the text, and its posi- tion relative to other quotation marks. For example, Canvas always inserts an open quotation mark (“) when you type a quotation mark immediately following a space. Note: Use Smart Quotes has no effect on text that you type with the Path Text tool. Use Greeked text Select this option if you want Canvas to replace lines of text characters with gray bars, which speeds up screen redraw. This preference does not affect printing. Enter a size in points in the adjacent text box. When “Use Greeked text” is selected, Canvas replaces text at the specified size and smaller when the display magnification is 100% or less. Type tab - Preferences (Mac) Type tab - Preferences (Windows)
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