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ACDSee Forums: Forum: Canvas 11 and Canvas 11 with GIS - Recent Topics http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ ACDSee Forums: Forum: Canvas 11 and Canvas 11 with GIS - Recent Topics en Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:33:32 +0000 Pershagen on "Problem update Canvas 11" http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/problem-update-canvas-11#post-45346 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:02:31 +0000 Pershagen 45346@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ Hello I got an error message when I update Canvas 11 build 1173. I'm using Windows 7. What shall I do? Kind Regards Fredrik Andersson Error Message: Canvas 11.1 Installer Information Error 2329. error deleting file: C:\Config.Msi\303b280.rbf. GetLastError: 32.   sma on "Problem with license" http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/problem-with-license#post-45290 Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:56:55 +0000 sma 45290@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ I have bought a license of Canvas with GIS module but the serial that I received is only for Canvas and not for GIS.   Dear Acdsee, can you help me?? Melanie Wood on "The Canvas 11 Update - Now available!" http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/the-canvas-11-update-now-available#post-39503 Tue, 14 Jul 2009 22:40:02 +0000 Melanie Wood 39503@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ You can find it here: <a href="http://www.acdsee.com/support/updates">http://www.acdsee.com/support/updates</a>  Steve P on "Using Fonts in Canvas 11" http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/using-fonts-in-canvas-11#post-44522 Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:26:25 +0000 Steve P 44522@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ Can anyone give me information on how to give depth to my fonts? Ican add a shadow, but how about adding heighth an mahing the font look like it has a beveled edge. Where in the help section of Canvas 11 do I find info? Thank You stromo on "Windows icon export with transparent background?" http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/windows-icon-export-with-transparent-background#post-43890 Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:47:24 +0000 stromo 43890@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ I would like to create a 32x32 Windows icon with a transparent background. Image/Export/ICON ignores my RGB Transparency mask and creates icons with white backgrounds. Is there a way to do this? Jonas Grumby on "Easily resizing arrowheads?" http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/easily-resizing-arrowheads#post-42131 Wed, 16 Sep 2009 16:12:57 +0000 Jonas Grumby 42131@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ First, let me commend the devlopers of Canvas on a excellent product. I've been looking for a decent drawing program for over ten years, having evaluated  at CorelDraw, Illustrator, FreeHand, Xara Pro, Inkscape, and even Autocad for technical illustration and annotation.  I found all lacking in some way.  FreeHand seemed to be the best of the lot, but Adobe bought them a few years ago to kill it. Anyway, enter Canvas, and so far I have been thoroughly  impressed. That said, a question: I often like to change the size of arroheads in my drawings.  It seems that it can be done in Canvas. but only by grabbing the red control buttons on the arrowhead and movign them to resize it.  The problem is that the arrowhead also often moves off center and needs to be repositioned back.  I would like to be able to simple "scale in place" the size of the arrowhead larger or smaller.   Perhaps somewhat counterintuitively, the (+) and (-) buttons in Atribytes/Arrowhead panel simply seems to scale the image (not the actual arrowhead size) larger or smaller, although this would seem the obvious place to put such a size scaling feature.  Is this a bug, or am I simply missing something obvious.   A related request: it seems that once resized (by manhandling the arrowhead image) I can save it, but the new entry is listed at the bottom of all the other arrowheads, and there is no scroll bar to easily get down to the newly created arrowhead for subsequent use.  It would be nice to either have new entries placed at the top, or a scroll bar added, or a filter to downselect to, e.g., only customized arrowheads.  Food for thought. Thanks in advance for any insights, and thanks doubly so for an outstanding product! Best,   J. Grumby   mluwish on "Newbie with little yellow squares" http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/newbie-with-little-yellow-squares#post-43802 Mon, 12 Oct 2009 23:25:17 +0000 mluwish 43802@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ I'm working through the getting started tutorials in the manual - just finished a flow chart. As I move the selection tool arrow around little yellow squares pop up in odd places. They look very useful and important but what are they?  Advanced features I'll meet a hundred pages from now? Something I missed ten pages ago? Just to be clear, they are not the bounding box handles or the various icons that the tool icons turn into. They often pop up near/on an object close to an object I'm about to work on. Thanks in advance midimid on "Rotating with GIS" http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/rotating-with-gis#post-42992 Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:31:45 +0000 midimid 42992@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ A bit of a noob at this.  I've imported a number of shape files and can scale the document and change projections without affecting the lat/long coordinates, but no matter how I try to rotate my map, the coordinates end up changing. Is there a way to do this? midimid on "SWF distortions" http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/swf-distortions#post-43049 Wed, 30 Sep 2009 04:55:46 +0000 midimid 43049@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ Firstly, what is the difference between saving a SWF as "for players" vs. "for editors"? Secondly, I have a map project that I'm moving to Flash.  In order to do so, I'm decompiling the SWF that Canvas outputs so that I can edit it in Flash.  The resulting file looks great - I make my movie clips and build. However, some of the shapes in the resulting SWF are distorted.  You don't see the distortions in Flash itself, only when the SWF is built and I zoom in (which I will need to do - thus the usefulnesss of being in vectors).  I also see no distortions from the decompiled SWF - its only after I've converted the shapes to MovieClips.  The distortion I'm seeing is sort of a slight horizontal skew to the left by about 6 degrees. Has anyone run into anything like this?  Is it a bug? Any other thoughts on doing what I'm trying to do?  Perhaps some other software that can easily convert shapefiles to Flash? igraphics on "object path editor and load polygon" http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/object-path-editor-and-load-polygon#post-42867 Mon, 28 Sep 2009 10:14:44 +0000 igraphics 42867@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ <object classid="clsid:38481807-CA0E-42D2-BF39-B33AF135CC4D" id=ieooui> </object> I want insert a polygon (in other words: 5 points) with “load polygon” under Object Path Editor (OPE) in Canvas 11. With natural numbers Canvas OPE operates well. When I use comma separated numbers (common use of decimal separation in Europe), <table class="MsoNormalTable" style="width: 120pt; margin-left: 3pt; border-collapse: collapse;" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="160"> <tbody> <tr style="height: 12.75pt;"> <td style="padding: 0cm 3.5pt; width: 60pt; height: 12.75pt;" width="80" valign="bottom"> 12,25 </td> <td style="padding: 0cm 3.5pt; width: 60pt; height: 12.75pt;" width="80" valign="bottom"> 45 </td> </tr> <tr style="height: 12.75pt;"> <td style="padding: 0cm 3.5pt; width: 60pt; height: 12.75pt;" width="80" valign="bottom"> 34 </td> <td style="padding: 0cm 3.5pt; width: 60pt; height: 12.75pt;" width="80" valign="bottom"> 17,88 </td> </tr> <tr style="height: 12.75pt;"> <td style="padding: 0cm 3.5pt; width: 60pt; height: 12.75pt;" width="80" valign="bottom"> 55,76 </td> <td style="padding: 0cm 3.5pt; width: 60pt; height: 12.75pt;" width="80" valign="bottom"> 35 </td> </tr> <tr style="height: 12.75pt;"> <td style="padding: 0cm 3.5pt; width: 60pt; height: 12.75pt;" width="80" valign="bottom"> 33,1 </td> <td style="padding: 0cm 3.5pt; width: 60pt; height: 12.75pt;" width="80" valign="bottom"> 36 </td> </tr> <tr style="height: 12.75pt;"> <td style="padding: 0cm 3.5pt; width: 60pt; height: 12.75pt;" width="80" valign="bottom"> 44 </td> <td style="padding: 0cm 3.5pt; width: 60pt; height: 12.75pt;" width="80" valign="bottom"> 38,447 </td> </tr> </tbody> </table>     I get a wrong polygon. Canvas read a new number after a comma. This causes fatal errors and wrong polygon with wrong points.   Any help? Thank´s Ingo rmatuszek on "Merge multiple image objects into one" http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/merge-multiple-image-objects-into-one#post-42379 Mon, 21 Sep 2009 16:39:56 +0000 rmatuszek 42379@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ I know that I have done this before in an older version of Canvas. I have an illustration that I've placed several pictures on. These are small individual frames of a panoramic view that overlap at various points. What I've done before and I can't figure out how to do now is to combine all of these individual objects into a single object (not a group) and then trim off the uneven edges to create one large view of the scene. Was this ability moved or removed? Using “Combine:Add” doesn’t work for image objects and I can't find anything from the help system that covers this area. superticker on "Loading PhotoShop *.ABR brushes" http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/loading-photoshop-abr-brushes#post-39628 Sun, 19 Jul 2009 19:46:49 +0000 superticker 39628@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ When I try to Load... a PhotoShop brush file (*.ABR file), Canvas 11.0 & 11.1 (on WinXP Pro, SP3) returns the error that "the file is corrupted or not of this format".  I tried loading several *.ABR files.  Canvas seems to be able to read brush files it creates itself, but not PhotoShop brush files created by PhotoShop.  What's wrong? mrwinslow on "Welcome to Canvas! I'm here to help!" http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/welcome-to-canvas-im-here-to-help-1#post-29778 Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:22:27 +0000 mrwinslow 29778@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ Welcome to our Canvas 11 forum. I've used every version of Canvas since 3.5. I'll be happy to help you get the best of of Canvas 11! I use Canvas DAILY and love it. I've never used anything so easy and fast, and I have the OTHER suites. Canvas rocks! noneck on "Opening text files and plotting data" http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/opening-text-files-and-plotting-data#post-41490 Thu, 03 Sep 2009 09:52:42 +0000 noneck 41490@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ Hi! I´m a beginner and I would like to ask you how I can open a text file and plot the data (X,ErrX,Y,ErrY) on a graph. I tried to look for some help about plotting graphs on the Canvas 11 user guide but I didn't find anything so basic.... Are there other user guides that I can read to find information about this kind of problems? Thank you very  much for your help. rsands on "SIMPLE ARROWS" http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/simple-arrows#post-41639 Sun, 06 Sep 2009 08:49:41 +0000 rsands 41639@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ I want a simple arrow (end to line). I'm not sure how to create my own. Just want one that is made from 2 simple arcs. The ones with Canvas are all too bulky for my liking and I can't seem to edit them to how I like. Help appreciated thankyou. cmoore0917 on "plotting items in 3D" http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/plotting-items-in-3d#post-40107 Mon, 03 Aug 2009 14:39:01 +0000 cmoore0917 40107@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ I need to plot the spatial relationships of archaeological artifacts in 3 dimensions.  Is there anyway to import the coordinates (X,Y,Z) and display that data in a movable or rotatable cube? Is there anyway to "hang" artifacts within the cube produced by the 3D Cube tool?  If so, would the spatial position of each artifact be preserved if I move or alter the shape of the cube? Kit.Clemons on "painting complex polygons" http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/painting-complex-polygons#post-41163 Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:26:21 +0000 Kit.Clemons 41163@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ I am a new Canvas user (formerly using Adobe Illustrator) and am having difficulty "filling" complex polygons with colors/patterns. Does Canvas have a feature similar to live paint in Illustrator? Myshot on "I'm thinking of buying it, but have a few quick questions." http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/im-thinking-of-buying-it-but-have-a-few-quick-questions#post-41134 Tue, 25 Aug 2009 23:54:40 +0000 Myshot 41134@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ Hi, I am learning Adobe Illustrator at college as part of a Diploma in Web Devleopment.  I was reading the spec sheet for Canvas last night and saw that I can import Illustrator graphics to Canvas.  Q1.  Does this mean I can actually use the two programs interchangably keeping the one graphic file as an .ai file to work on in Canvas? Q2.   If so, can I also import Paint Shop Pro files to work on in Canvas. Q3.  I'm thinking of buying floor plan software to draft out house designs.  Can Canvas adequately perform or display the same type of design features I'd expect to find through these other floor plan programs? Any general feedback would be appreciaited.  Cheers. cafox513 on "Selecting an irregular shape in a photo" http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/selecting-an-irregular-shape-in-a-photo#post-40765 Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:18:52 +0000 cafox513 40765@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ I have photos of objects. I want to drop out the background using Visibility Mask. But I'm having great difficulty selecting either the object itself or the background. I end up enlarging the subject like made, and picking at it with eraser or fuzzy brush to separate object from background, then trying to use the Magic Wand to select what I want to get rid of. Very difficult process! I'd love some direction. Thanks up front. mrwinslow on "Great news for Canvas Fans!" http://community.acdsee.com/forums/topic/great-news-for-canvas-fans#post-32396 Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:15:48 +0000 mrwinslow 32396@http://community.acdsee.com/forums/ "I am very pleased to let you all know Dave Alligood has returned to ACD as the product manager for Canvas. Dave knows Canvas inside and out. He knows Canvas's incredible capabilities and he and his team, (all were with Deneba) are ready to take Canvas to the next level! Please join me in welcoming Dave and his new team back to the Canvas family!"