To open or place a file 1   Choose File > Open or File > Place. •   Open creates a new Canvas document containing the file you select. •   Place inserts the file in the current Canvas document. Place is available only if a Canvas document is open. 2   Choose a file type in the Show (Mac) or Files of Type (Win- dows) pop-up menu. The file list shows files that match the selected format. •   Select All Files (Windows) or All Documents (Mac) to show every file in the folder. You can choose All Docu- ments in the Show menu (Mac) to show all files that Canvas can open. 3 In the file list, select a file and click Open or Place. You can also double-click a file name. For some file formats, a dialog box presents options for opening files. Configure the options and click Open or Place. •   If you open the file, Canvas creates a new document. •   If you are placing the file, a Place pointer appears. Click where you want to place the top-left corner of the file. Saving files in other formats You can use the Save As command to export files in a variety of file formats. However, be aware that most file formats do not support every Canvas object or effect. For this reason, Canvas asks if you are sure when you select other file formats for saving files. For example, a TIFF file can save only a single raster image; it does not support text or vector objects. If you save a Canvas document containing vector objects or text in TIFF format, all the objects in the document are changed into an image. If you then open the TIFF file, its contents appear as one raster image, so you can’t edit the original text or reshape the vector objects. When you save a document in a non-Canvas format, Canvas creates a new file on disk, but does not close the document or change the name of the document in the title bar. If you then try to close the Canvas document (without saving it in Canvas format), a message asks you to confirm that you want to close the document without saving it. The Open dialog box provides you with a bitmap preview when you select certain supported formats. When selecting any Canvas file, you’ll see some file properties beneath the bitmap preview.
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