Canvas 15

Canvas 15 allows engineers and technical graphics professionals to illustrate and communicate with confidence. Canvas' minimum precision levels and powerful object illustration and image editing tools ensure that the accuracy of your data is maintained right through to publication. Accelerate and streamline your technical illustration workflow from initial import and design to final presentation, facilitate collaboration, and improve your overall productivity with this complete technical illustration software solution.

What is new in this release:

With advanced interpolation methods for rendering and resampling images, a brand new color management engine, improved support for digital camera RAW files and camera models, and a host of efficiency-driven advancements to make your life easier, designing and sharing your technical graphics vision has never been this painless. Or this snappy.

• Work Your Way: Canvas now supports your personal workflow preferences, including the ability to save your customized layout and have it open as you like it each time you start the application. Avoid wasting time with the Previous View command, designed to allow you to conveniently return to your previous magnification level and position in the document. And it is now possible to open each of your projects in a new application window, allowing for simple comparing and contrasting, or multitasking.
• Effortless Precision: Use the Smart Mouse and Guides to precisely snap lines to objects and manage complex angles and distances. Take the guesswork out of centering, dividing, and snapping to corners of geometric shapes and aligning lines at sensitive angles with these sophisticated guidance tools.
• Carefree Copying: Quickly unify the elements of your project by using the Attribute Dropper tool to copy the attributes of one vector object to another. This feature makes it easy to maintain the consistency of aspects like stroke, pen, fill ink, text style, transform, dimensions, transparency.
• Tightened Text Workflow: Diversify your projects with quick, hassle-free access to special characters. Speed up your editing process with the ability to merge multiple text boxes, including merging all the boxes on the page, or simply a selection.
• An Expanded Library: Canvas 15 comes packed with additional symbol and clip art libraries perfect for a diverse range of tasks, from crime scene labeling and furniture layout, to circuit board design and energy exploration.
• Streamline Your Sophisticated Shapes: Maximize efficiency with the ability to set objects to flip as they replicate. Create and edit polygons the way you want, with locked lengths and specified alternate angles.
• Accelerate Your AutoCAD Project: Experience greater flexibility with the option to customize the drawing scale of AutoCAD DWG and DXF file formats. Canvas 15 will also substitute the CAD user data interchange standard fonts for easy editing and accessibility.
• Fly to the Web: Canvas 15 now supports the importing and exporting of WebP, a format designed to allow lossless and lossy compression for images being uploaded to the web.
• Create Powerful PDFs: With Canvas 15's overhauled PDF export dialog, enjoy more versatile, robust PDFs, accommodating better export compression, support for grayscale color mode, layer-based transparent effects rendering, the ability to export object properties, and more. Importing PDFs has also been improved to make life easier, including text and image merge support.
• More GIS Data Solutions: With an ever-expanding range of handled file formats and information analysis tools, Canvas GIS users are better supported than ever with the ability to import, modify, and export Google Earth KMLs and KMZs. Create buffers for objects that are tagged Point, Line, or Area for greater visualization and map utilization. Simplify your communications with the ability to export layered PDFs with geospatial information embedded and viewable with Acrobat Reader XI. Open, place, or import formats used by GPS-aware devices, satellite imaging systems, or digital elevation models, such as GPX or Geo JPEG 2000.

Limitations:

30-day trial