The Layers capabilities in Canvas are easy to use, and layers can be visible, invisible, grayed, or colored. Object selection can be limited to the active layer, or can be made across layers. Individual layers, or groups of layers can be selected for printing. The Slides command can be used to create a slide show from the layers in a drawing. This feature goes full screen, and can have a designated Master Layer, and a timed display interval.
Canvas text can be bent to fit curves and other shapes, and can be wrapped around irregular objects.
In addition, Canvas offers slanted margins, text fit within shapes, full justification, Bezier conversion of Type 1 fonts, single character font scaling, subscripts, superscripts, small caps, kerning, and fractional leading and tab support within text blocks. Also included is a spelling checker with a 100,000 word dictionary. There are a limited number of paint tools available, and Canvas can edit imported paint objects. Canvas has the ability to edit Bezier curves, blend objects, rotate, skew, distort, and stretch objects, and apply perspectives. The ToolPicker can be used to select the items to be loaded, and can save sets of items for selection at startup time.