Using Canvas Templates

Using Canvas Templates

Using Canvas Templates

Canvas X Draw includes many ready-made templates, and you can create your own template documents. Then, when you use the New from Template command, you can select a template — either one supplied with Canvas X Draw or one you have created — to create a new document based on the contents and configuration of the template.

A template document stores almost all preferences settings, as well as the settings you specify with the Document Setup command, and other document setup options, including the following:

  • Document type
  • Configuration of layers, slides, pages, sheets and frames
  • Settings for rulers, grids, guides, and views
  • Current inks and strokes settings
  • Text styles and default text settings

Canvas X Draw stores some settings with the application and not in particular documents, so these settings are not included in a template document. The settings that aren’t stored in a template include the position of palettes on the screen and the current set of external tools.

If you create a template with a small amount of type, such as for a letterhead, convert the type to paths so the template can be used without particular fonts being available.

To Save a Template Document:

  1. Choose File | New to create a new Illustration, Presentation, Animation, or Publication document.
  2. Choose Layout | Document Setup to select measurement units, document size and orientation, and, for Publications, the margins and column layout.
  3. Choose File | Configuration Center to set up preferences for the document.
  4. Create or import objects that you want to store in the template.
  5. Choose File | Save As.
  6. In the Save As dialog box, navigate to the Templates folder.
  7. In the Save as type drop-down list, select TPL - Canvas Template.
  8. Click Save.
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