HANDLES (1) Small squares, usually at the corners and midpoints of an object’s bounding box, displayed when an object is selected; you can drag handles to resize the object. (2) Small circles at the ends of tangent lines; you can drag a handle to change the length or angle of a tangent line. HATCH PATTERN Object-based fill pattern made of line groups. HEADER One or more lines of text that appears at the top of each page of a document. Once you specify the text that should appear in the header, the text is automatically inserted. HIGHLIGHT To make something visually distinct. For example, when you select a block of text in Canvas, the selected text appears against a colored background. HOTKEYS Single-letter keyboard commands that can be used while in image editing mode or vector editing mode HTML Abbreviation for HyperText Markup Language, the authoring language used to create documents on the Web. HUE A color’s main characteristic; its name, as in blue, red, or orange, defined by its position on the color wheel. I-BEAM A type of pointer shaped like the capital letter “I.” IMAGE A picture composed of pixels; referred to as a “raster image,” “paint image” or “bitmap” (see “image mode,” page G.765). IMAGE MODE The system used to define colors in an image. Canvas image modes include Black and White, RGB Color, CMYK Color, Grayscale, Indexed, and LAB Color. IMPORT To use any of several techniques to move graphics or text from another program into a Canvas document. INDEXED A digital image mode that lets you specify a palette of up to 256 colors used in the image. Usually used for on-screen display and electronic distribution of images, because it requires less mem- ory than RGB or CMYK color modes. INK Colors, symbols, hatch patterns, textures, and gradients that can be applied to objects. INSERTION POINT A blinking vertical line where text you type will appear in a text object or dialog box. ISO STANDARD International Organization for Standardization; one of several standards used to specify the properties of dimension objects. JIS STANDARD Japanese Industrial Standard; one of several used to specify the properties of dimension objects. Tangent line handles Insertion point
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