Creating and customizing inks
You can use the Inks Managers to create your own inks. Managers
are sets of controls at the bottom of the tabs in the Inks palette. You
can flip open the managers to create inks, adjust inks in objects, and
change the palettes inks.
Described next are ways to change the Inks palette and use Inks man-
agers in general. The rest of the chapter explains how to customize
color inks, gradient inks, hatch inks, symbol inks, and texture inks.
Changing the Inks palette
You can do the following to customize the Inks palette:
Delete inks you no longer want to use.
Add new inks to the palette.
Save the inks on each tab in an inks file.
Load inks from a file to replace the current inks.
Append inks from a file to add them to the palette.
Display color names
When you add or delete inks in the palette, the changes are recorded
in a Canvas Settings file, not in the Canvas document, so the palette
contents remain the same the next time you use Canvas.
Using the Inks palette in a floating window
To keep the Inks palette open, press either ink icon in the toolbox
and drag the palette away. The palette remains open in a floating
window.
To apply inks to selected objects: Click the pen ink (A) or fill ink
(B) icon, then click an ink. If you click an ink with no objects select-
ed, the ink becomes the current ink applied to new objects.
To drag and drop inks: Drag an ink from the grid to an objects
outline (for a pen ink) or the inside of the object (for a fill ink).
To remove an ink from the palette: Drag it to the trash can (C).
A
C
B