What's New?

Aurigma Customer's Canvas 4.1.6 - Released September 15, 2017

Aurigma Customer's Canvas 4.1.5 - Released September 1, 2017

Aurigma Customer's Canvas 4.1.4 - Released August 25, 2017

Aurigma Customer's Canvas 4.1.3 - Released August 11, 2017

Aurigma Customer's Canvas 4.1.1 - Released August 1, 2017

Aurigma Customer's Canvas 4.1.0 - Released July 13, 2017

Major Improvements

• Added support for crop marks in resulting PDF files.
• Added possibility to change design layouts at runtime.
• Added ability to import PDF and PSD files to products.
• Improved capabilities to customize Image Gallery, LeftToolbar, and the pagination control.
• Now end-users can hide Object Inspector at runtime.
• Added support for the sepia effect in the Image Editor.
• Now it is possible to decorate image layers with frames.
• Now it is possible to give an alias name to a set of markers and reference the markers in PSD layers by that name.
• PSD markers can be set up in separate JSON files now.
• Both overlay and background mockup images can be configured on a product page at the same time now.
• Now PSD templates can reference background layers stored in separate files.
• Now default settings of layers added through the user interface can be configured on a per-product basis.
• robots.txt has been added to the project preventing search crawlers from indexing the editor.

The Full List of Changes

Aurigma Customer's Canvas 4.0.16 - Released June 15, 2017

Aurigma Customer's Canvas 4.0.15 - Released June 5, 2017

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a problem with text rendering in AJAX Vector Objects.

Aurigma Customer's Canvas 4.0.14 - Released May 25, 2017

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a problem with caching images in the Gallery.

Aurigma Customer's Canvas 4.0.13 - Released May 10, 2017

New Features and General Improvements

• Added the possibility to erase an image background. Now, you can erase a single color or a color range in the Image editor.
• Improved the Black-and-white algorithm.

Aurigma Customer's Canvas 4.0.11 - Released March 22, 2017

New Features and General Improvements

• Added the support for DeviceCMYK colors in PDF rendering.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a problem with Top Toolbar appearance in Chrome.
• Fixed a problem with device-cmyk palette in the Color picker.

Aurigma Customer's Canvas 4.0.10 - Released February 28, 2017

Bug Fixes

• Now if the user does not fill in in-string placeholders, no masked characters are displayed in the placeholders both at design time and on hi-res outputs/proof images when the editor is initialized with maskedPlaceholderUnderscoreEnabled=false.
• Fixed a problem with undoing changes in text elements.

Aurigma Customer's Canvas 4.0.8 - Released February 17, 2017

New Features and General Improvements

• Now, you can check if bounded text shows all characters that it contains.
• When users edit one of linked image placeholders, the changes apply to every such a placeholder.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a problem with the invalidation of text objects, which were updated using the loadUserInfo method.

Other

• Added the StateRenderer project to the Customer's Canvas source code.

Aurigma Customer's Canvas 4.0.7 - Released February 9, 2017

New Features and General Improvements

• Now Customer's Canvas automatically invalidates the Gallery cache when you upload new images to your server.
• Improved color management for text and shape elements in case if the destination color format is set to CMYK.
• Now the ProductTemplates controller can both rasterize PSD files as they are seen in Photoshop and retrieve their thumbnails taking into account restrictions and rules defined with markers.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a problem with the ColorPicker being truncated in the editor.
• Fixed a problem with curved text being displayed cropped.
• Fixed a problem with ArgumentOutOfRangeException thrown when rendering some specific templates.
• Fixed a problem with the bounded text not being rendered into the hi-res output in some cases.
• Fixed a problem with the vertical alignment of bounded text.
• Fixed a problem with the <IE_blackAndWhite> marker.

Aurigma Customer's Canvas 4.0.5 - Released December 26, 2016

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a problem with reading smart objects containing multiple layers from PSD templates.
• Now no underscores are displayed in in-string placeholders both at design time and on hi-res outputs/proof images when the editor is initialized with maskedPlaceholderUnderscoreEnabled=false.
• Fixed a problem with publishing the Customer's Canvas source code.
• Fixed a problem with MediaCorruptedException thrown when loading some specific PSD templates.

Aurigma Customer's Canvas 4.0.3 - Released November 30, 2016

New Features and General Improvements

• Added the aboveCanvasOnSmallScreenEnabled property allowing you to show the Object Inspector above the canvas on small-screen devices.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a problem with resizing an image when the user changes content of placeholders.
• Fixed a problem when predefined images were mixed with images in placeholders.

Aurigma Customer's Canvas 4.0.2 - Released November 16, 2016

New Features and General Improvements

• Added the maskedPlaceholderUnderscoreEnabled parameter allowing you to change the text placeholder symbol. Now it can display spaces or underscores for blank characters.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a problem with cursor positioning in text placeholders.

Aurigma Customer's Canvas 4.0.1 - Released November 3, 2016

New Features and General Improvements

• Added the possibility to save metadata in the high-resolution PDF output using the hiResOutputPdfMetadata parameter. You can set it up at runtime.

Aurigma Customer's Canvas 4.0.0 - Released October 27, 2016

New Features and General Improvements

• Customer's Canvas gets Material Design and customizable themes.
• Added the possibility to set up non-rectangular image placeholders in PSD templates using vector masks.
• Added a special type of text layers - text placeholders (<TPH>) - prompting users to fill them out. This new feature would be useful in case if some text layers are mandatory for customizing by customers.
• Added the capability to automatically convert images added to a design to black and white. It is needed if your end users create products printed in duotone.
• Vertical orientation is supported for both point and rich (paragraph) texts now.
• Added a new vector element - line.
• When users add a new object to the web-to-print designer, the object automatically obtains the focus.
• Introduced the foreground (<FG>) layer. Objects added to this layer cannot be edited by the user and always sit above any regular editable element.
• Added the possibility to change user data at runtime. Editor.loadUserInfo gets an optional data parameter now.
• Now it is possible to resize an image item without keeping its original aspect ratio.
• Added snap lines support.
• Now two different TopToolbar layouts are available - a simple line and a two-level view.
• Added the linked placeholders which allow for populating their content at once.
• The grips for editing elements on the canvas are HTML objects now. This feature improves overall user experience and reduces likeliness of the situation when the grip goes out of the canvas and cannot be picked by the mouse.
• Unified Color Picker control.
• Added the support for Retina screens.
• Added the possibility to keep user files and the cache on different disk drives, including network ones.
• Now pictures in image placeholders can be pre-transformed: scaled, translated, and rotated.
• Now users can type custom values in drop-down lists in the Rich text editor.
• Added the possibility to zoom in/out the content in the Rich text editor.
• Added the proofImageMockupEnabled parameter. Now, you can allow or disallow for drawing mockups on proof images.
• Added the possibility to configure the designer's look and feel in a different way for different pages.
• Added the support for stroke and shadow (<TAESH> and <TAEST>) text effects.

Other

• Added a new pre-loader with Customer's Canvas logo. It can be set up through IConfiguration.
• Now On-premises Trial package is a Windows installer file which deploys Customer's Canvas to a development computer.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a problem with font sizes bigger than 100pt in point text objects.
• Fixed some problems with the <MVI> and <IAPSF> markers for image placeholders.
• Fixed a problem with retrieving smart object transformations from PSD templates.
• Fixed a problem with resizing an image to fit its placeholder.
• Fixed a problem with loading font names into the drop-down list in the Rich text editor.
• Fixed a problem with the leading setting in rich text elements.
• Fixed some problems with text wrapping.
• Fixed a problem with font names being case sensitive in the font list in clientConfig.json which caused them to fail to load.
• Fixed a problem with the resize cursors in Safari.
• Fixed a problem with the toolbar layout in the Rich text editor.
• Fixed a problem with cropping proof images.
• Fixed a problem with text strings being rendered too bold for some specific fonts.
• Fixed a problem with changing public gallery content on per product/page basis.

Documentation

• The Creating and Editing Templates in Customer's Canvas article is added to the documentation.
• The Non-rectangular Image Placeholders article is added to the documentation.
• The Mockups article is added to the documentation.
• The Troubleshooting article is added to the documentation.
• The Using Smart Objects in PSD Templates article is added to the documentation.
• The Restricting Editing Designs to Certain Regions article is added to the documentation.

Aurigma Customer's Canvas 3.2.10 - Released August 8, 2016

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a problem with loadEditor failure when the third argument is omitted.

Aurigma Customer's Canvas 3.2.9 - Released August 4, 2016

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a problem with white stripes when cropping a proof image.

Aurigma Customer's Canvas 3.2.8 - Released July 29, 2016

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a problem with invisible navigation area when the user reverts the product and adds a new surface.
• Fixed a problem with the user interface on iPhones and other small-screen mobile devices.

Aurigma Customer's Canvas 3.2.6 - Released July 18, 2016

New Features and General Improvements

• Added the ability to resize images added by the user to the product without keeping aspect ratio.
• Now it is possible to change layer values at the runtime using IFrame API.
• Added the ability to display the MyFiles tab in the Gallery for image placeholders initialized with the <IAPSF_folder> marker.

Aurigma Customer's Canvas 3.2.4 - Released June 30, 2016

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a problem when layers could not be edited in case if the product restricted all changes done by the user to a pre-defined area.

Aurigma Customer's Canvas 3.2.3 - Released June 23, 2016

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a problem with invisible thumbnails for predefined items in an image layer.

Aurigma Customer's Canvas 3.2.2 - Released June 6, 2016

New Features and General Improvements

• Added the ability to limit the number of characters in the rich text. The new <TCL> marker for PSD layers defines maximum text length. The Rich text editor displays character count in the lower-right corner now.
• Now Customer's Canvas allows for restricting changes made by the user to a specific area in the product design. The new <R> marker defines the allowable area within PSD templates.
• Added the possibility to configure Customer's Canvas to flip proof images and hi-res files.
• Added support for vertical alignment in paragraph text layers.
• Now curved text layers support automatic font size adjustments based on length of the text entered by the user. Previous versions allowed to only reducing the font size. Starting from version 3.2.2, Customer's Canvas gradually restores font size back to original value when the user reduces text length.
• Added the possibility to combine print products from multiple saved states.
• Now it is possible to initialize the editor using IFrame API by passing up a query string in the old query-string API format. It facilitates for simple upgrading to the new API without any changes in the source code used to integrate the editor into a web-to-print site.
• Now safety lines can have different horizontal and vertical margins.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a problem with the editor not initializing after upgrading to a newer version.
• Fixed a problem with transparent background in cases when the editor is configured to crop proof images to safety lines.

Aurigma Customer's Canvas 3.2.0 - Released May 4, 2016

New Features and General Improvements

• Support for custom fonts has been radically improved.
• Added the Web API for Manipulating Design and Mockup Files allowing for deleting, uploading, and replacing files, getting file lists of designs and mockups folders, and generating image preview of design templates and mockups.
• Added the ability to get layer dimensions through the API; see the Measuring Products topic for details.
• Added the possibility to select multiple objects on the canvas using mouse.
• Added the support for automatic load of user info without getting the user to click on the Load my info button.
• Added the new Anonymous Mode for public websites where users can customize products without registering accounts.
• Added the possibility to pre-populate image placeholders using user info.
• Now the Rich text editor supports the following additional font settings: tracking, leading, first line indent, before/after paragraph space, and left/right indent. For details, see the Rich Text Editor topic.
• Added the ability to change layer opacity in the top toolbar.
• Now it is possible to create blank templates with backgrounds loaded from raster image files.
• Added the zoomStep parameter allowing for changing zoom level step on the canvas.
• Added the TopToolbar.fontSize settings defining maximum/minimum values and a step size for the spin box controlling the font size.
• Added the fontListMode parameter allowing for hiding the font style list.
• Added the settings for configuring a default font used to render text layers if their original fonts are not found.
• Added the support for cut lines having different left/right and top/bottom margins. See the IConfiguration interface for details.
• Added automatic outline for texts not foiled well against the background in the Rich text editor. The outline configuration parameters are described in the clientConfig.json topic.
• Improved user experience in the image Gallery.
• The text leading and text tracking buttons have been added to the top toolbar.
• Added the overwriteExistingFiles parameter allowing for overwriting images with existing names in the Gallery.
• Added the hiResOutputBackgroundColor parameter setting background color for the hi-res output.
• Added the proofImageSafetyLinesEnabled parameter allowing for drawing safety lines on proof images.
• Added the newImageName parameter setting default name for a new image layer.
• Added the <PH_stub> marker allowing for adding default content to image placeholders. The content is displayed for demonstration purposes and the user is supposed to replace it with a custom image.
• In the Hosted Version:
  • Added the ability to open product templates in the admin panel for preview purposes.
  • Added the ability to overwrite files in the admin panel.
  • Added the ability to localize the editor's user interface.
  • Added the ability to add custom CSS styles.
  • Added the Reload local fonts button which is clicked after custom fonts have been added/removed in a hosted instance. The button applies changes made to custom fonts to the web-to-print editor and print templates.
  • Performance improvements - improved page load time.

Other

• The support for non-proportional resize is turned off now for all layer types except rectangle, ellipse, rich text, and automatically scaled text.
• The demo page, index.aspx, is rewritten using the IFrame API.
• Custom styles \customCss\*.css, the clientConfig.json configuration file, and the translations.json localization file are stored in the ~\Configuration\ folder now.
• Localization changes - TITLE_FONT_LIST of the top toolbar is renamed to TITLE_FONT_FAMILY_LIST.
• The <TACS> marker is renamed to <TACBIU>.
• The font list definition format is changed; see the Custom Fonts topic. The old format is supported.
• The Iconfiguration.appUrl property is removed; use the IFrameApi.editorUrl instead.
• The proofImageWatermarkFontName parameter is renamed to proofImageWatermarkFontPostScriptName and its default value is changed to "ArialMT".

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a problem when a text was unreadable because of low contrast against the background.
• Fixed a problem when the Load my info button returned wrong values.
• Fixed a problem with passing user data to the Rich text editor.
• Fixed a problem with loading product states when the most recent version keeps restoring instead of a given state.
• Fixed a problem occurred when publicFolderName is set to a non-existing folder.

Documentation

• The end-user license agreement article is added to the documentation.

Aurigma Customer's Canvas 3.1.1 - Released January 7, 2016

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a problem with image context menu.

Aurigma Customer's Canvas 3.1.0 - Released December 30, 2015

New Features and General Improvements

• Added the support for Multi-Column Text.
• Added the support for shaped text.
• Added the possibility to load rotated text layers from PSD templates.
• Added the ability to change a folder where public images in the Gallery are loaded from; see the publicFolderName configuration parameter.
• File cache is improved; the cache configuration parameters are changed.
• Added the new closeFontMenuOnClickEnabled parameter to configure the Select font drop-down list behavior.
• Added the new <AST> marker that automatically scales a user-entered text to fit the bounding rectangle of the original text.
• The setUserId method can merge user accounts now. When changing user id at runtime, it copies user files (serialized product states and uploaded files) to the new user folder.
• The new setPrintAreas method allows for changing templates at runtime.
• Now it can be configured whether changes made by the setMockup and setPrintAreas methods are reverted by clicking the Revert button.

Other

• Now paragraph text layers are loaded to the editor as rich text.
• The zoom step is 15% now.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a problem with incorrect displaying rich text items in the Object inspector.
• Fixed a problem with incorrect handling of images having wrong or corrupted color profile.
• Fixed a problem when finishProductDesign returns undefined as user identificator.
• Fixed a problem with uploading images which names duplicate ones already placed in the Gallery.
• Fixed a problem with incorrect default zoom value.
• Fixed a problem with moving and resizing texts on iPad.
• Fixed a problem when users are able to delete elements which are restricted to be removed with a marker.

Aurigma Customer's Canvas 3.0.0 - Released November 6, 2015

New Features and General Improvements

• Added an ability to hide the public image and the My files tabs in the Gallery.
• Added an ability to set up a public image folder for a specific template.
• Full window and full screen modes are available in the editor now.
• Added 3D preview feature which allows for displaying realistic proof images.
• Added an ability to load formatted text from PSD templates.
• Advanced paragraph settings are now loaded from PSD templates: spacing, paragraph spacing, and first line indent.
• Color Picker displays transparency now.
• Added an ability to hide buttons for changing text style via both PSD markers and settings in ~\Configuration\clientConfig.json.
• Default font size depends on product size now.
• Improved image placeholder user experience - Select image and Edit buttons are now displayed only if focus is set on the placeholder.
• The select fill color button is now hidden by default for images and placeholders. It can be displayed back using the <SACFC> marker.
• Now it is possible to change localization language via the API.

New IFrame API

New JavaScript API (IFrame API) offers possibility to control print product at runtime:

• The IFrame API includes all the functionality of the query-string API.
• It is much more suitable for complex configurations, for example, for multipage products.
• The IFrame API offers more flexibility when configuring the designer and print products.
• It allows managing products at runtime - add/remove surfaces, change mockups, etc.

For more information about the new API read the Introduction to IFrame API topic. The full API reference can be found here.

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a problem with updating buttons in the Top toolbar.
• Fixed several problems with incorrect right click behavior.
• Fixed a problem with Color Picker and background items.
• Fixed a problem with updating social networks tabs.
• Fixed a problem with applying settings loaded from ~\Configuration\clientConfig.json.
• Fixed a problem with smart layers in PSD templates.
• Fixed several problems with warnings in the Object Inspector.
• Fixed a problem with updating font list in the hosted version after installing new custom fonts.

Other

• Localization changes: LOAD_INFO_BUTTON and TITLE_LOAD_INFO are moved from LeftToolbar to TopToolbar.
• If there is no localized string for an element, then the element's name is used.
• The proofImageDpi parameter is removed. Now the resolution of proof images is 72 DPI. For more information, see the Configuring Your First Print Product topic.

Aurigma Customer's Canvas 2.1.2 - Released October 16, 2015

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a problem with Facebook integration.

Aurigma Customer's Canvas 2.1.1 - Released September 15, 2015

New Features and General Improvements

• Improved user experience for image placeholders.
• Added support for multipage products:
  • Setting up a multipage product with a folder name containing page templates
  • Setting up a multipage product by configuring pages individually through the query string API
  • Product pages navigation
  • Rendering multipage products into one or multiple hi-res files
• Now image placeholders can be set up empty without initial images (<PH_empty>).
• Added character spacing (leading) support in curved text.
• Added support for folding lines and book spines.
• Now Customer's Canvas allows for changing compression algorithm and JPEG quality in hi-res output.
• Added the possibility to show and hide the Load my info button for a specific product.
• Added support for vector elements including loading vector shapes from PSD files. Now the user can recolor vector shapes in products.
• Added a warning message displayed when a user places an element beyond a safety line.
• Performance improvements including faster rendering and loading cached pages as well as reduced amount of disk space needed to store finished products.

Bug Fixes

• Several GUI bug fixes including pop-up menu problems, drag-and-drop problems in the Object Inspector, Rich text editor issues, etc.
• Fixed a problem with rendering products containing images deleted in the image gallery dialog.
• Fixed a problem with image placeholder permissions being reset after host page refresh.
• Fixed a problem when default query string values overwrite parameters loaded from ~\Configuration\clientConfig.json.
• Fixed a problem when no elements besides background were rendered into the hi-res output.

Other

• OutputFolder and OutputFileLifespan parameters are removed.

Aurigma Customer's Canvas 2.0.4 - Released July 31, 2015

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a problem with limited color set in Color picker.
• Fixed a problem with Gallery in Chrome.

Aurigma Customer's Canvas 2.0.3 - Released July 15, 2015

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a problem with text thickness on different zoom levels.

Aurigma Customer's Canvas 2.0.2 - Released June 8, 2015

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a problem with too thick text.
• Fixed a problem that appeared when cursor went beyond the canvas.
• Fixed a problem with Facebook tab in Gallery.

API Improvements

• The getApproveImages method is renamed to getProofImages.

Aurigma Customer's Canvas 2.0.1 - Released May 12, 2015

Bug Fixes

• Fixed a problem that caused a server error while loading a product or rendering hi-res output.