What is Canvas Mode in PDFDepth?

Create — pages and elements

New Canvas offers eight preset sizes — Letter, A4, Legal, 11×17 tabloid, 16:9 presentation, business card, and square or story social sizes. With no document open it starts a fresh canvas file in a new tab; with a document open it appends a page (using your brand background if you set one).

Elements drop in from a grid: text, an image from file, rectangle, circle, line, arrow — plus dialog-driven elements: a table builder, a chart, a QR code, and a Smart Forms field picker for fillable text fields, checkboxes, signatures, and more.

Design — type, layout, and layers

Select elements and style them: font family, size, bold and italic, text/stroke color, fill, and stroke width. Align any selection to an edge (a single element aligns to the page), distribute three or more with even gaps, group and ungroup, and lock elements against accidental moves. A layers list shows everything on the page with bring-forward/send-back, lock, and delete, and grid, snap, and rulers keep placement honest.

Templates — 170+ starting points

The template library ships more than 170 built-in layouts across business, marketing, social, events, forms, construction, real estate, and two dozen other categories — resume, invoice, proposal, contract, estimate, construction documents, letterhead, flyers, signage, and more. Template placeholders pull from your brand kit automatically, so "Apply" lands your logo, colors, and name in one pass.

Two ways to grow the library: "Save current page as template" freezes the open page — background and elements — for reuse, and "Create from PDF" converts the page’s text into editable elements (over a kept-background image or a blank page). A GIFs category holds eight animated templates that open in GIF Studio — edit headline, subtext, colors, size, frame rate, and duration with a live preview, then download the .gif.

Brand kit and AI design

The brand kit stores a company name, logo, five colors, and heading/body fonts — saved in your browser, not the cloud. "Apply brand to page" restyles the page in one pass: headings take the heading font and primary color, body text the body font, shapes the primary/secondary pair, and your logo lands top-left if the page lacks one.

AI Design runs on your own Gemini key and always proposes before it changes: create a page from a description, redesign the current page, rewrite selected text, or translate elements — or append a translated copy of the page. Each request returns a plan of operations with per-item checkboxes, and nothing applies until you press "Apply suggested changes".

Resize & share — one page, every format

Magic Resize & Share reflows the document into preset formats: Letter to A4 and back, portrait to landscape, three Letter pages to a tri-fold brochure sheet with fold guides, a document to a 16:9 presentation, and an AI-built one-page executive summary of a proposal. Social export renders the current page (or every page) at Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, and LinkedIn sizes — four, four, three, and four sizes respectively — as PNG downloads (zipped when there is more than one) or a sized PDF. A GIF tab turns any page range into an animated GIF. Everything opens in a new tab or downloads; your source document is never modified.