Canvas creates a paint object containing an image of the original
objects. The paint object appears in front. The Render command does
not change the original selected objects.
To see the original objects, you can drag the paint object away.
Pasting into images
You can render objects by copying them to the Clipboard and then
pasting them into paint objects in edit mode. When an image is in edit
mode and you paste into it, the Clipboard content is rendered and
appears as a selection in the image.
If you select the Anti-aliased Clipboard option in the Preferences
dialog box, Canvas anti-aliases vector and text objects that you paste
into paint objects.
Rendering exported files
If necessary, Canvas renders selected objects or an entire document
when you use the Save As command to export to a raster file format.
For example, if you select vector objects, and then save in GIF for-
mat, Canvas renders the selected objects because GIF files store ras-
ter images.
When Canvas is saving a file, some options might not be available in
the Render Image dialog box because the file format doesnt support
them.
Tip
Anti-aliasing blurs edges
while rendering to make the
edges of text characters and
vector objects appear
smoother in the resulting
image.