The most commonly-used format, Illustration documents are the basis for most Canvas X technical illustrations.

Illustration documents are general-purpose documents for all types of illustrations and graphics. You can specify a custom document size, and the document can have multiple pages (called sheets), with multiple layers on each sheet.

Publish documents using one of the standard paper sizes or a custom size. Specify full pages or facing pages, or choose one of the standard templates to create brochures, flyers, labels, magazine pages, and more.

Publication documents are designed for publications printed with two-sided (facing) pages, although you can also create a Publication that has pages with single sides. You can use master pages to hold items that you want to appear throughout the publication. You can also use multiple layers on each page.

Presentations and slideshows provide a powerful way of displaying technical data.

Presentation documents are designed for on-screen slideshow presentations. You can use multiple layers and a master slide to hold background elements. You can use more than a dozen transition effects, including wipe and dissolve, during slide show playback.

Create simple animations from your technical illustrations.

An Animation document is designed for creating and editing web (GIF) animation files. An animation is composed of multiple frames, which are equivalent to the image frames of film-based animations.

You can use onion-skinning in an Animation document. When you select onion-skinning, frames adjacent to the current frame appear in the background. This helps set up object movement in an animation.