Guide
Fifteen sections, from the interface to files

The guide is divided into sections; each section has its own pages, and some have their own subsections. The menu on the left shows them all, and opens on the branch of the page you are on.

01

Introduction

The editor, the installable app, the interface, the panels, the document, gestures, undo and the player.
02

The canvas

Pan and zoom, the view, the rulers with the page origin, snapping.
03

Select and transform

The Selection tool, containers, handles, the free tools, alignment and stacking order.
04

Drawing tools

Every tool in the toolbar: how to use it, what it creates, which keys it takes.
05

Paths

Edit a path anchor point by anchor point, round, cut, join, simplify.
06

Type

Point type and type in a frame, per-character style, columns, threaded text frames, fonts.
07

Appearance

Everything that decides how an object is painted.
08

Modifiers

A node that holds the selected shapes as its source and draws the result, always editable.
09

Panels

Every panel: when it appears and what each of its fields does.
10

Document and resources

The Document tree, the Resources column, colors, gradients, patterns, symbols, markers, widgets, tables, charts and data.
11

Images and photo books

How images come in, where the originals are kept, how to lay out a photo book, how to trace an image.
12

Pages

The Pages panel, master pages, templates, the page label, page sizes, pages in rows.
13

Animation

Animate any property of any object: timeline, tweens, auto-key, easing.
14

Menus

The right-click menu, the File menu, the panel menus.
15

Files

Every format Janvas reads and writes, the save and export dialogs, printing to scale.