If you are applying dashed pen stroke to objects, you can define how dashes are handled if an object has corners.

Preserve Corners: Select this option to keep the corners intact; i.e., dashes will not be applied to the corners of objects.

Continue with Dash: Select this option to apply dashes to the corners of objects.

Any settings you select in the dialog box are saved as the default setup for new documents.

The normal Canvas X Draw display shows all objects with their inks, strokes, and other attributes as they are in the document.

Gamut Warning: This mode highlights colors that are outside the CMYK color gamut. It replaces out-of-gamut colors with a special indicator color. Bright greeen is the default indicator color.

Ink Coverage: This mode shows all areas of the image that exceed a specified ink coverage. Bright greeen is the default indicator color.

Wireframe: Wireframe mode shows vector objects without their assigned ink or stroke attributes. When Wireframe is selected, vector objects are hollow and have 1-point black pen strokes. Text characters appear solid black. Paint objects are hollow and only their bounding box appears. With this mode, the screen display tends to speed up.

Pixel Mode: The Pixel Mode setting allows users to view graphics at 72 ppi before they are rendered.

When creating Web graphics, the standard resolution is 72 ppi. At the same time, all of your images will remain fully editable. Pixel Mode also prevents pixel shifting, which sometimes occurs when objects are exported to the Web. (See Designing for the Web.)

Caching in Canvas X Draw is a technique that can dramatically increase display speed. When an object is cached, Canvas X Draw creates a low-resolution version of the object to display on screen. This can make it much easier to work in documents that contain complex vector objects or high-resolution images, which can significantly slow down zooming and scrolling.

When you are not editing cached objects, it usually won’t matter that they are displayed at lower resolution. You’ll enjoy significantly faster display without losing any capabilities. When you want to edit a cached object, Canvas X Draw loads the original; you do not need to take any special action or uncache the object.

Draw with Cache: Select this option to display low-resolution versions of cached objects for faster display. Cached objects are objects that have been cached with either the Cache Object command or the Auto Cache Images option. (See Cache.)

When Draw with Cache is not selected, Canvas X Draw retains any low-resolution previews that it has created in memory, but displays the full paths of vector objects and displays paint objects at normal resolution.

Auto Cache Images: Select Auto Cache Images to automatically cache paint objects whose resolution is above a threshold that you specify.

If Auto Cache Images is selected, but Draw with Cache is not selected, Canvas X Draw will cache paint objects (if their resolution is above the set threshold), but will not display the low-resolution versions.

Cached paint objects are displayed at low resolution for faster display. Enter the desired display resolution in the second text box.

To uncache all paint objects, deselect Auto Cache Images. A message appears. Click Yes to uncache all paint objects. This is equivalent to using the Uncache Object command on each paint object individually.

If you want to uncache paint objects and Auto Cache Images is already cleared, use the Uncache Object command instead.

Opens documents at full screen size. Otherwise, documents open at a standard size that fits any monitor, but might not fill the screen completely.

Opens documents so the full layout area can be seen in the center of the window. When this option is off, documents open in Home View (100% magnification with the upper-left corner of the page in the upper-left corner of the window).

See Using AutoSnap Palettes.

See Viewing the Smart Toolbox.

Select this checkbox if you want Canvas X Draw to automatically save a document after a certain period of time. The time periods are designated in minutes.

Saves a copy of the current document each time you save changes to the document. The backup copy has the extension “.bak,” and Canvas X Draw saves to this same file each time.

Displays information, tips and shortcuts in small boxes that appear when you point at an item, such as a tool, button, or object. For example, if you move the pointer over the Copy button in the Tool Bar, Canvas X Draw displays the command name and shortcut. Canvas X Draw also displays user comments when you point to an object that has comments, and displays information when you point to an ink in the Inks palette. For color inks, Canvas X Draw displays color system information. For example, if you point to a CMYK ink, the color values such as “5c 2m 92y 0k” appear in a pop-up box. For other inks, Canvas X Draw displays the ink name.

When you lock an object or group of objects, you can select and copy locked object(s) by clicking on the object or group of objects. Copied objects will not be locked.

When you scale an object by dragging its selection handles, if the object has a solid pen stroke, Canvas X Draw will scale the pen weight proportionately with the object.

When copying from other applications, select this option to paste as a metaobject. (See Inserting Objects into Canvas X Draw Documents.) Text, however, is pasted as OLE if this option is enabled. If you copy both an object and text, they will paste as OLE.

Lets you select objects on all visible layers in a document, rather than just the active layer.

If this option is off, you can still select objects on other visible layers by pressing Tab and clicking the objects.

When this option is on, you can drag a selected object from behind another object. If this option is off, you can drag only the front object, because dragging deselects a back object.

Lets you place objects in Freeform mode by clicking already-selected objects. Otherwise, you must use the Effects | Freeform command to put an object in Freeform mode.

Prevents Canvas X Draw from redrawing open Canvas X Draw documents when you are working in another application. This option lets other applications run faster when Canvas X Draw is in the background.

Enter a number in the Min box to set the minimum number of actions that Canvas X Draw can reverse. The default is three. Enter a number in the Max box to specify the maximum number of actions that Canvas X Draw reverse. The default is 10.

Specify the amount of time that must elapse before the view change is recorded.

Select a format for Canvas X Draw to default to when Save As is selected.

You still have the option of changing the file format in the Save As dialog on an individual basis.

These options let you change the pointer displayed for painting tools. The default pointer is a symbol of the current painting tool.

Standard Pointer: Displays the icon for the current painting tool.

Precise Pointer: Displays a crosshair pointer. The intersection of the crosshair is the center of the current brush.

Brush Size Pointer: Displays an outline of the current brush as the pointer.

Open the context menu to change the pointer while you edit a paint object.

Apply individually: Apply filter operations individually.

Combine channels & apply: Combine channels and then apply filter operations.

The options in this menu affect the entire screen display in Canvas X Draw.

Draft: Provides the fastest screen display by drawing vector objects less smoothly. Choosing this option can increase display speed by 300%.

Normal: Provides fast screen display and draws smooth vector objects. This is the recommended setting and is selected by default.

Anti-Aliased (Coarse), Anti-Aliased (Medium), Anti-Aliased (Fine): Smooths all objects on screen, including text and vector objects by anti-aliasing their edges. Theoretically, the finer the anti-aliasing, the slower the screen drawing will be —Anti-Aliased (Fine) being the slowest. Anti-aliasing also slows the display compared to Draft or Normal settings.

Anti-aliased is especially useful when you create screenshots or display slide shows on screen.

When activated, this feature will significantly enhance the visual quality of scaled images. Interpolation takes place whenever an image needs to be reduced or downsampled. In other words, whenever the number of pixels being displayed is less than the available number of pixels at the destination. An example of downsampling would be when a 300 ppi image is set to be displayed at 100%.

Interpolation is a mathematical procedure which estimates values of a function at positions between listed or given values.

Auto: Is the optimal setting for interpolation of a photographic image. The Auto setting automatically chooses the best Interpolation option based on the image, its resolution, and current magnification.

Nearest Neighbor: This will remove some pixel information from your image; however, if used, this setting will be the fastest. The Nearest Neighbor setting merely gathers pixel data from the “nearest neighbor” of each pixel, therefore interpolation does not actually occur.

Fast Bilinear: Uses a bilinear interpolation algorithm during downsampling, which is optimized for speed. This setting can be used for working with line art and may be used with some photographic images.

Fast Bicubic: Uses a bicubic interpolation algorithm, which is optimized for speed. This setting is appropriate if you work primarily with photographs. Due to the blurring effect, this method is not recommended for line art.

Box: Displays considerable tiling or jaggies when you resize an image.

Triangle: Produces good results with photo-realistic images and with images that are irregular or complex. This method uses interpolation to minimize the raggedness normally associated with image expansion.

Bicubic: Is an appropriate setting if you work primarily with photographs.
Due to a blurring effect, we do not recommend the Bicubic setting if you work with line art.

Bell: Smoothes the image.

BSpline: Produces smooth transitions, but may cause excessive blurring.

Lanczos:Produces the sharpest image, but may also introduce some ringing artifacts.

Mitchell: Produces smooth transitions when enlarging photo-realistic images. This filter is a good compromise between the ringing effect of Lanczos and the blurring effect of other filters.

Use the color palette to select a color for the pasteboard area.

Keeps screen images in memory so the display refreshes significantly faster when you move or edit objects. This is the recommended option. If you deselect this option, less memory (up to 4 MB) is used for screen display, but displaying complex images might be very slow.

Uses compatibility mode.

Shows all previews in the Open dialog box.

When you drag or resize an object, it will follow the pointer and also appear in its original position until you release the mouse button.

Selecting this option means that when you drag an object, an outline of the object (without pen ink, fill ink, or stroke) will follow the pointer.

Allow dragging in Path Edit mode.

Tells Canvas X Draw how far (in pixels) from the original to put object copies when you choose Edit | Duplicate or Edit | Paste.

You can specify the number of pixels that objects move when you use a combination of modifier and arrow keys. For example, with the default settings, Ctrl+Right Arrow moves a selected object 50 pixels to the right, and Alt+Right Arrow moves it 10 pixels to the right.

Select a size for selection handles.

Keeps objects that you move using the arrow keys in view by scrolling the document window.

Type a name in the text box. When you attach a comment to an object, Canvas X Draw associates the name you enter with the comment. By default, Canvas X Draw uses the name entered when Canvas X Draw was installed.