Design Editor Web API

Design Editor consists of not only the JavaScript application. It also includes the server-side application which exposes its own REST API. If you are using Customer's Canvas cloud platform, you may want to use the cloud app backend. However, if you are using Design Editor which is not connected to the cloud platform or the cloud API lacks of certain features, you will find the API described in this section useful.

What you can do with this API?

1. If you are using Design Editor in a local mode (i.e. data is stored on the same machine with the application rather than a cloud platform), you may manipulate Design Editor data files using these APIs:
   • Designs and Mockups
   • Fonts
   • State files
   • User uploads
2. You may use Personalized rendering API whenever you want to generate images based on the state files or templates without an editor, for example, variable data printing scenarios, generating multiple designs based on the same user data, and other similar tasks.
3. If you enable a secure mode, you may use the Auth tokens API to control an access to the user's private data, such as uploads or private designs.

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