CHAPTER WEB PUBLISHING The integrated illustration and image editing features contained inside Canvas creates an ideal enviornment for the creation of Inter- net graphics. The exercises in this chapter will show you how easy it is to prepare documents and images for Web deployment. At the end of this section, you will be able to create Web buttons, animated GIF's, hyperlinks, and Web pages. Canvas also contains many other advanced Web design tools, like slicing and the HTML export of the sliced images as well as Flash and PDF export (refer to “Web pub- lishing,”  in the Canvas User’s Guide). Creating objects for the Web The Web Button tool is used to create clickable objects that can eas- ily be placed inside a document that is destined for Internet or Intra- net deployment. Web buttons will change their appearance when a Web site visitor places the mouse pointer over the button. Addition- ally, the image can be set to change when the button is clicked.   Remember, any Canvas object -- text, illustration, or image -- can be used as Web button components. You will also see how easy it is to place, store, share and reuse a Web button after it has been created. Web buttons This lesson will show you how to create a clickable Web button and place the button on a Web page. To begin, open the document named “Buttons.cnv” in the Tutorial folder. The document contains three numbered illustrations. You’ll assemble a Web button from the illustrations. To create Web buttons 1 Select the Web Button tool in the Object tools palette. 2 Double-click the Web Button tool icon to open the Web But- tons palette. 3 Click the arrow at the bottom-left of the palette. This expands the palette so you can create buttons. 4 To create a button, you’ll drag three illustrations into the Web Buttons palette to establish the three button states. Tip Any Canvas document can also be quickly converted into a PDF document. Once converted to PDF, a Canvas project can be electronically distributed to anyone with- out concerns of cross-plat- form issues. Web Button tool 7
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