Choosing the Type toolbox presents buttons to link text or place it on a curved line. Another text button shows two tiny arrows at the bottom corner. The double arrow indicates more tools in a hidden Type palette where you select fonts, hyphenation, paragraph styles, and options for spacing letters, paragraphs and words. You can click on a toolbox button and drag it to make new toolboxes containing only related text, paint or draw functions. Palettes can be placed anywhere and kept in full view, collapsed to a narrow band to free up work space, rearranged from the Windows pull-down menu, individually modified or hidden with a mouse click.
Palettes also can be separate from some of the pull-down menus.
Clicking on URL Tag in the Object menu brings up a separate palette for adding uniform resource locator tags to documents. Canvas has the same sort of precision as a CAD program, and some of the same tools, but it's much easier to use. All the usual Bezier and other advanced tools are here, plus smart tools that maintain object spacing. There are 21 tools for bitmap editing. Text formatting tools and 2,000 included fonts equal those in any word processor or low-end desktop publisher.