Canvas is not a PageMaker or Quark killer, but the integration of all the different types of editing in one program makes it an easy choice for a variety of layouts. If you're a professional and would like some new creative tools for inspiration, the street price of Canvas is about the same as a couple of professional Photoshop plug-in sets and could easily cause you to create something you might not have dreamed of otherwise. If you just want a fun and very capable graphics program with professional features, get Canvas. And if you have a laptop computer that you want to add a whole lot of editing capability to without putting a large demand on system resources, then it's definitely time for Canvas. I've got mountains of them.
Powerful software needs powerful technical documentation to really release the full capabilities.
Because I have found a direct relationship between the informative qualities of the material covered and the quality of the presentation. And these are the ones I spend serious time with. I read the manuals.