This page created 1 Sep 2014
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The Canvas is the single page size on which the chart will fit for printing or creation of a PDF.
Tools > Diagram > Diagram Measurements provides a means of seeing the current canvas size and changing it. Always allow some empty space at the edge of a chart.
WARNING: Make sure that you are in View > Zoom > Normal before you change the canvas size. Failure to do this may create a gap in the chart rulers at the origin.
COMMENT: If you increase the width of a canvas and reduce the height of the canvas , that sometimes leaves some white canvas on the screen where it is no longer part of the canvas.
It is usual to change the canvas size when you are about to try to compact a chart. Usually, the depth will be increased at the first stage. Later when the right hand end of the old canvas is free of charting objects a second resizing occurs to decrease the width. It is often easier to work with a larger than the final size canvas as this allows parts of chart to be parked while space for final location is created. Each time you succeed in creating unused space at the right or the bottom of a chart, it is a benefit to resize the canvas to remove it. This then means that the View > Zoom to Fit increases the view. Sometimes this process needs to be a cycle of edits, then resize as shape of the chart is reshaped.
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