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)