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Canvas
This pane contains settings to customize your Canvas view.
Background
This setting allows you to choose a color for the background of your Canvas—the color
outside of the project boundaries. This color is not exported with your project, but only
acts as a guide for helping identify transparent and colored objects.
To change the background color of the Canvas:
m Control-click the Canvas Color well, then choose a color from the pop-up color palette.
The selected color becomes the background color for the Canvas.
Alignment
These settings control the color and display of the optional grid, rulers, and guides that
appear in the Canvas. Grids, guides, and rulers can be turned on and off in the View
menu at the upper-right corner of the Canvas.
Grid Spacing: This slider sets the width for the grid in pixels.
Grid Color: This color well sets the color of the grid lines.
Guide Color: This color well sets the color of guides.
Dynamic Guide Color: This color well sets the color for Dynamic Guides.
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