Interface Overview

This section provides an overview of the Canvas Envision interface and describes the basic procedures:

Overview of the Canvas Envision Interface

Canvas Envision has the Ribbon, the Panes, the Page Layout area and the Status bar.

Canvas Envision Window

The Canvas Envision interface contains 10 main components, providing you with a Page Layout area as the main area for working on your illustrations, the Ribbon and a variety of panes with the options you need. Depending on your Canvas Envision customizations, your interface may look different than what you see in the image below.

You can customize the interface in several ways, such as by hiding the Ribbon, Rulers, Panes, and Status bar. All pages share the Ribbon, Panes, and Status bar. You can switch between open Canvas Envision documents using the Switch Windows in the View tab of the Ribbon or in the Status bar.

To Hide or Show the Ribbon

Do one of the following:

• Click the icon that is located at the top right side of the screen.

Hide the Ribbon	Show the Ribbon

• Press Ctrl+F1 to toggle the state between “show” and “hide”.

To Show or Hide the Panes and Status Bar

Select or deselect an appropriate checkbox from the Panes panel in the View tab of the Ribbon.

To Arrange Panes in Screen

1. Drag the pane that you want to arrange to the top, bottom, left or right side of the application window.

2. You will see the docking controls.

3. When the mouse pointer hovers one of the controls, the pale blue rectangle appears as docking preview. When it is what you want, release the mouse button on the given docking control.

To Arrange Panes into Another Pane

1. Drag the pane that you want to arrange over another pane.

2. You will see the docking controls on the pane.

   

3. When the mouse pointer hovers one of the controls, the pale blue rectangle appears as docking preview. When it is what you want, release the mouse button on the given docking control.

To Hide or Show Title Bars of Docked Panes

1. Right-click on the docked pane of which you want to hide the Title bar.

2. Select Menu Bar from the context menu to hide the Title bar.

3. Deselect Menu Bar to show the Title bar.

To Make the Pane Floating

1. Right-click on the Pane’s Title bar that you want to make floating.

2. Select Floating from the context menu.

   

To Hide or Show Status bar

Deselect the Status Bar checkbox from the Panes panel in the View tab of the Ribbon to hide the Status bar. Select the checkbox to show the Status bar.

To Add or Remove Items from Status Bar

1. Select the Status Bar checkbox at the Panes panel in the View tab of the Ribbon if it is not shown.

2. Right-click on the Status bar.

3. Select or deselect the items from the pop-up list.

   

To Minimize Main Window

Click the Minimize icon that is located at the right side of the application Title bar.

To Resize Main Window

1. Drag down at the application Title bar.

2. Mouse over one of the 4 sides of the application window.

3. When the mouse pointer changes to  or  , drag the side to resize.