Canva reads as a downstream re-saver — it surfaces disproportionately on documents whose original Creator was a different, often institutional, application.
Back to all statisticsForensic verdictBased on this tool’s share of the HTPBE? corpus.
Corpus profile
Canva is a web-based design tool. Documents downloaded as PDF from Canva carry Canva as Producer and were rebuilt entirely from Canva’s render pipeline.
Canva is the legitimate generator for design output. Contextual signal: when Canva appears as the latest Producer on a document whose Creator pointed to an institutional source, the document is a Canva rebuild rather than the original — that producer/creator mismatch is the marker.
Role in the workflow
Every PDF carries a Creator (the application that produced the original document) and a Producer (the engine that wrote the PDF). The same tool can appear in either slot, with very different modification profiles.
Distributions
The PDF versions Canva writes when acting as Producer, and the other tools that appear in the same documents.
Most output is PDF 1.4 (100% of files where Canva is the Producer).
Related profiles
Other tools that frequently share metadata with Canva in the same documents. Each card links to its own forensic profile.
Long tail
Smaller cuts of the Canva corpus — useful context, but treat each row as a single data point rather than a strong signal.
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