Canvas X for Windows

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Illustrate, design, and share your technical illustrations and graphic designs
Last updated on 09/28/20
There have been 2 updates within the past 6 months
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Developer’s Description

Illustrate, design, and share your technical illustrations and graphic designs.

Illustrate your world with industrial precision. All-in-one graphic design and technical illustration software. Comprehensive vector illustration and image editing tools. Work in extraordinary detail with 0.035 micron accuracy. Helpful built-in Canvas Assistant and dynamic help. Illustrate, design, and share your technical illustrations and graphic designs with ease, precision, and professional quality results - all from within one fully integrated application. Canvas X is all you need to create all you envision.

Drawing with Precision. Canvas X comes loaded with tools and techniques that allow you to easily create scale drawings, floor plans, architectural designs, and other technical drawings with measured precision and placement. Snap objects into exact positions relative to each other, draw from the center points of objects, define the scale for scale drawings, systematically align objects, display size information as you work, and add dimension objects. Work with Vector and Raster Images. Canvas X's unique and integrated design environment makes it possible to work with and combine all graphical elements and apply high end effects to each in a single document. Thanks to the ability to work with both vector graphics and raster images with the same powerful enhancement tools, Canvas X users are able to create professional-looking outputs while preserving complete editing control of all graphical data.

Vector Object Versatility. Experience complete flexibility while working dynamically with vector objects. Canvas X's adaptable Sprite technology can be used to apply image and transparency effects without rendering, allowing you to continue to edit your graphics at any time. Do more with specialized technologies, such as gradient transparency tools, vector masks, opacity effects, channel masks, and much more. Communicate with CAD Files. Import native AutoCAD files, enjoy CAD-inspired dimensioning tools, and edit and manipulate CAD objects. Place a 2D view of a 3D object in your document, edit the view, adjust the orientation, rotation, zoom, and lighting. Work within Industry Standards. Create dimension objects that fully conform to existing industry and government standards, including: IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineer's) floating point standard and ANSI (American National Standards Institute) U.S. Product and industry standards.

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GENERAL

Release: September 28, 2020

Latest update: October 5, 2020

Version: 20-build-457

OPERATING SYSTEMS

Platform: Windows

Operating System

Windows 10
Windows Server
Windows 8
Windows 7

Additional Requirements: None

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Total Downloads: 141,609

Downloads Last Week: 4

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User Reviews

3.6/5

18 User Votes

Excited to get back to Canvas!
tyendorNovember 14, 2012
Pros
Canvas is a wonderful program that once you have learned it, your illustration and layout projects are only limited by your imagination. I used Canvas 8 years ago on Mac and was my default program for everything I needed to do.
Cons
At this point, the only con is I'm not aware of a Mac version. I do wish the price was not as expensive, however, for those of us on a budget.
Summary
Once mastered, a great time saver. Does everything.
w11dw1rk2rOctober 7, 2012
Pros
It appears that owner, ACDSee, has decided to take this program seriously, as it should. It does so many things well that it would have been a crime to treat it as anything other than a first rate illustration and publishing program. It has a fairly steep learning curve due to the wealth of things this program does well, yet it has survived the years intact and is now starting to improve again. I've been using Canvas since 1997 and the main functionality has not changed a lot. This is a good thing. However, the newest developments have addressed improvements in technology in the last four or five years. It is faster, more stable, and a great value to people who don't want to waste time getting an idea out of their heads and onto paper. It handles both vector and rastor images equally well. The conversion facilities are excellent. The PDF utility is very good. The import and export utilities are excellent. It has many ways to interact effectively with other graphic programs. I
Cons
I suppose the complaint I had since ACDSee took it over is that some of its usefulness was becoming dated. However, ACDSee is now addressing these issues. You should be aware that there is not a lot of interface change going on. Most changes are under the hood, where feedback seems to indicate that speed and stability have truly improved. It now appears that a Canvas Mac application is under development. This will be good news to the legion of Mac users who have always lamented the day Mac development was discontinued.
Summary
I truly like Canvas. It is still ahead of its time with many of its features. This program is well worth the price if you value being able to most anything you can think of, whether for business, science, or art. Be prepared to spend some time becoming proficient. You will enjoy the Sprite Effects on your vector illustrations, and the ease of photo adjustments. I might add that it is a very accurate program and can replicate the look of technical drawings, maps, CAD drawings, and much more. It is truly high-end jack-of-all-trades software.
Great program, but Windows-only
amoffa3July 30, 2012
Pros
Canvas is a very powerful all-in-one program, a refreshing break from the Adobe monopoly and endless upgrade cycle, and it's great to do everything in one interface, without switching among pixel, vector, layout, and web applications. I can do wireframe sketches and finished projects in the same document!
Cons
No Mac version. Running it in Parallels is a dealbreaker. Staying in one program for everything I need is great, but I'd rather stay in one OS for everything I need. Come on, ACDsee. It's 2012. Windows-only is no longer a sensible business decision.
Summary
Very good product, Adobe has now a good competitor
Asman81June 12, 2012
Pros
- Object-oriented - easy to create charting - export format - easy to use
Cons
nothing bad
Summary
Canvas 14 user experience was really amazing. Good product, however you need to use it to know how easy it is compare to Adobe products!
Does everything... not perfect, though
southpawamiNovember 24, 2011
Pros
Does everything(dtp, graphics, 2d, 3d) Formats support beyond anything out there A true jack of trades
Cons
format support isn't perfect, export formats aren't always perfect
Summary
A true graphic tool that's a jack of all trades, but a master at none. It's a relief to be able to open everything in one place, and if you have a format export problem, just export through a different format... this program can do that. Hard to be sure what this program should be doing though... besides everything.
Canvas 12 is irrelevant. Requiem for Canvas on Mac
nerdboyOctober 31, 2011
Pros
None. It's gone.
Cons
Sadness at the loss of a great program.
Summary
Canvas on Mac was perfect. True some new features would have been nice but it did everything I needed and it did it with a minimum of fuss. I do both engineering drawing as well as image annotation and page layout. I need accurate snap-to guidelines, scaling, dimensioning, etc. etc. I completely agree with wrbtu that there is nothing comparable currently. I've looked at everything I can find and tried demos of a few: Cadintosh, Intaglio, Lineform, and TurboCAD Mac Designer 2D. The latter comes close but lacks the simple elegance and some critical features. I'd love to thank the authors of Canvas for Mac; maybe they'll see this and understand. Meanwhile, I'll stick with Mac OS 10.6 and Canvas 8.
Best Object-Based Mac Drawing Program, Fails in Lion
dfbishopAugust 21, 2011
Pros
No Pros for Mac Users. Unsupported, doesn't run in Lion
Cons
No version works on the latest Mac OS
Summary
This outstanding object-based drawing program was easy to use, bug-free, and full-featured. There is no substitute available in any other software for the Mac. It was the industrial version of MacDraw, but amazingly, in spite of its importance to scientists, engineers, artists, architects and others, it was abandoned for the Mac
No longer works on Mac
wrbtuFebruary 15, 2011
Pros
no pros for a Mac user
Cons
No longer works on Mac
Summary
This review is written to assist Mac users find a replacement for Canvas, which no longer works on the Mac platform. I used Canvas from 1988 until they abandoned the Mac platform, & it had been my favorite program. Looking for a replacement wasn't easy, & finding a full replacement has been impossible. I've tried 7-8 different programs, but they were either too simplistic, too complicated, not intuitive in the least, feature-empty, or just plain poorly implemented. VectorDesigner, in my opinion, & for my needs, is the best alternative available, & the only one that got past the trial/demo stage for me. I design forms & simple one-page 8x10 posters (with text & graphics). Canvas was by far the best program for what I need to do. Now, I can get away with using NisusWriter Pro (a word processor), but it's not very good with graphics. VectorDesigner is better for graphics features, but is not very good with text. So I use both, depending on what I need to get done. VectorDesigner costs only a fraction of what Canvas cost, so it's understandable that it does only a fraction of what Canvas used to do. I have hundreds of Canvas documents that I can't modify, can't print, can't "save as", but I keep them, because I can still open it using Mac OS 10.6, & copy from a Canvas document & paste it elsewhere. And that, like it or not, is the best solution I've found.
Very good software
P-ODecember 15, 2008
Pros
Easy using
Cons
Nothing the software is very good
Summary
Sounds to good to be true
RichardIIISeptember 17, 2008
Pros
According t descriptions, better then photo shop which I own... Possible.
Cons
Sounds like cripple ware from some of the discriptions.
Summary
Should include the fact that it is not free.